Magic and Natural Science in German Baroque Literature : : A Study in the Prose Forms of the Later Seventeenth Century / / Frederick Herbert Wagman.
Looks at the attitude toward the natural sciences expressed in German Baroque prose to indicate to what extent the German intellectual laity of the 17th century had been influenced by scientific advances.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1942] ©1942 |
| Year of Publication: | 1942 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia University Germanic Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- I. Introduction: Aims and Materials
- II. The Heritage of Ideas
- III. Miraculous Causation and Intervention
- IV. The Persistence of Magic in Nature
- V. Autonomous Force in Nature
- VI. Pansophistic Ideas
- VII. The Search for Rational Causality
- VIII. Experiment and Experience in the Field of Nature
- IX. Experiment and Experience in Society
- Χ. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index