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  1. Friedrich Steinle is Professor of History of Science, Technische Universität Berlin. His research focuses on the history of electricity and magnetism, on eighteenth-century color research and, more generally, on the historical dynamics of scientific concepts and the history and philosophy of experiment.

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  1. James R. Hofmann, “Essay Review: Friedrich Steinle, Exploratory Experiments: Ampère, Faraday, and the Origins of Electrodynamics, translated by Alex Levine, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016,” Physics in Perspective 19, no. 3 (2017): 307–18.

  2. James Hofmann, André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

  3. Hofmann, “Essay Review” (ref. 1), 309, 308, 310, 307.

  4. Christine Blondel and L. Pearce Williams, “Ampere and the Programming of Research,” Isis 76, no. 4 (1985), 559–61, on 561.

  5. Hofmann, André-Marie Ampère (ref. 2), 230.

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Steinle, F. Reply to James R. Hofmann. Phys. Perspect. 19, 452–457 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-017-0212-9

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