Zeeman lecture

Friedrich Steinle will give the Zeeman lecture 'Knowledge in science and beyond: historiographical challenges and the case of colour history' on 30 September 16:00 - 17:30 in the Artis Library

Friedrich Steinle

Friedrich J. Steinle is professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Technical University Berlin. He is a member  of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (Halle, Germany) and of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur (Mainz, Germany).

Current Research

• History of electricity and magnetism
• History of colour research
• History and Philosophy of experimentation and of concept formation
• New perspectives for the interaction of History of Science and Philosophy of Science

Selected recent Publications

Exploratory Experiments. Ampère, Faraday, and the Origins of Electrodynamics. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Univ. Press. (2016)
(Ed. with Uljana Feest) Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice. Berlin studies in knowledge research, vol. 3. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012.

“Stability and Replication of Experimental Results: A Historical Perspective.” In: Harald Atmanspacher und Sabine Maasen (eds.): Reproducibility - Principles, Problems, Practices, and Prospects. New York: Wiley (2016), p. 39–63.

“Electromagnetism and Field Physics. In: Jed Z. Buchwald & Robert Fox (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013), p. 533–570.

„Scientific Change and Empirical Concepts“. Centaurus 51, Nr. 3 (2009): 305–13.