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Wolfgang Lefèvre Author & Editor

Wolfgang Lefèvre is a professor of philosophy and historian of science affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin). From 1972 until 1992, he taught philosophy in connection with the history of science at several German universities. His publications include Naturtheorie und Produktionsweise (1978), Die Entstehung der biologischen Evolutionstheorie (1984), (together with Falk Wunderlich:) Kants naturtheoretische Begriffe (1747-1780) (2000), (edited:) Picturing Machines (2004), (together with Marcus Popplow:) Database Machine Drawings (2006), (together with Ursula Klein:) Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science (2007).