Author: Wagman, Frederick Herbert
Title: Magic and Natural Science in German Baroque Literature: A Study in the Prose Forms of the Later Seventeenth Century
Description: New York, Columbia University Press, 1942. orig. wrappers. 178 pp., 23x15cm, Series: New York University Ottendorfer Memorial Series of Germanic Monographs No.29.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Columbia University doctoral dissertation. Contents: Introduction; The Heritage of Ideas; Miraculous Causation and Intervention; The Persistence of Magic in Nature; Autonomous Force in Nature; Pansophistic Ideas; The Search for Rational Causality; Experiment and Experience in Society; Conclusion.

Keywords: German Literary History, Seventeenth Century, Germany, Prose, History of Science, Criticism, Magic, Baroque Literature,