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Toward a philosophy of discovery: Friedrich Steinle’s exploratory experiments

Friedrich Steinle: exploratory experiments: Ampère, Faraday, and the origins of electrodynamics. Translated by Alex Levine. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016, 494pp, $65.00 HB

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Lambert, K. Toward a philosophy of discovery: Friedrich Steinle’s exploratory experiments. Metascience 26, 297–302 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0189-7

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