Compares the influential work of André-Marie Ampère and Micahel Faraday to reveal the prominent role of exploratory experimentation in the development of science. Focusing on Ampère's and Faraday's research practices, this book considers both the historic and epistemological basis of exploratory experimentation and its importance to scientific development.

Friedrich Steinle is professor of history of science at the Technical University of Berlin and president of the German Society for History of Science, Medicine, and Technology. Alex Levine is professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida and editor of the journal Perspectives on Science. He is coauthor of From Man to Ape and Darwinistas He has published translations from German, French, and Spanish, including Paul Hoyningen-Huene's Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions and Formal Logic: A Philosophical Approach.