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History of Science
Technische Universität Berlin
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SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
Friedrich Steinle is Professor for the History of Science at Technische Universität Berlin. His research is concerned with the history and philosophy of experiments, the dynamics of scientific concepts, the history of color research and the history of electricity and magnetism. Steinle studied physics, mathematics and the history and philosophy of science at Universität Karlsruhe and Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. He holds a PhD in the history of science from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and a Habilitation in the history and philosophy of science from Technische Universität Berlin. He has been previously employed and conducted research at institutions such as the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, University of Bern, Universität Stuttgart, Université Lyon 1 and Bergisch Universität Wuppertal. He has received research funding for numerous projects from the DFG (German Research Council) and is a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, German National Academy of Sciences Halle, and the German Academy of Science and Literature Mainz. His contributions to the field have been recognized through prizes from the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology and the prestigious Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology Fellowship (Cambridge USA).
Selected Publications:
1. Steinle, F. Exploratory Experiments. Ampère, Faraday and the Origins of Electrodynamics. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2016.
2. Dönike, M., Müller-Tamm, J. and F. Steinle, eds. Die Farben der Klassik. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2016.
3. Steinle, F. “Goethe und die Farbenforschung seiner Zeit.” In Die Farben der Klassik, edited by Dönike, M., Müller-Tamm, J. and F. Steinle, eds., 255-289. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2016.
4. Bushart, M. and F. Steinle. Colour Histories. Science, art, and technology in the 17th and 18th centuries. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015.
5. Steinle, F. „Concepts, facts, and sedimentation in experimental science.” In Science and the Life-World: Essays on Husserl‘s ‚Crisis of European Sciences‘, edited by D. Hyder and H. Rheinberger, 199-214. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.
6. Steinle, F. “Scientific Change and Empirical Concepts.” Centaurus 51 (2009): 305-313.
7. Steinle, F. “Experiments in History and Philosophy of Science.” Perspectives on Science 10 (2002): 408-432.
8. Steinle, F. and M. Heidelberger. Experimental Essays - Versuche zum Experiment. Bielefeld: Nomos Verlag, 1998.
9. Steinle, F. “Entering New Fields: Exploratory Uses of Experimentation.” Philosophy of Science 64 (1997): 65-74.
10. Steinle, F. Newtons Manuskript “de gravitatione...”: Ein Stück Entwicklungsgeschichte seiner Mechanik. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991.
