Artist Ward Shelley creates enormous, sprawling timelines that show the development of different ideas or cultural trends. Pictured above is a small selection from his chart illustrating the history of science fiction. One part that I find interesting at the very top of the diagram (see at link) is his notion that the genre was, during the 1940s, dominated by an emphasis on science, then sociology, and then forms.
http://scimaps.org/submissions/7-digital_libraries/maps/thumbs/024_LG.jpg via reddit | Artist's Website
I mean, it's about a guy who goes to the moon and meets aliens. True, there are demons and witches involved, but the magic clearly served the same plot points at hyper-advanced technology in modern sci-fi.
I looked it over for about five minuets without figuring out a good method to read the wholes thing in logical order. And some things are listed in multiple categories and ahh...!
I think it was the first "mad scientist" novel ever written.