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RODRIGUEZ-SALAZAR, Luis Mauricio. Física, química, sociología y metafísica en la experimentación indagatoria: reivindicando a Ørsted en su primer bicentenario. Intersticios sociales [online]. 2013, n.6, pp.1-28. ISSN 2007-4964.

In 1812, Christian Ørsted published a work in German language, translated to French in 1813 with the title Recherches sur l'identite des forces chimiques et electriques; the bicentenary of this important publication is enough reason for reappraising the Danish scientist's work, work that, in the present paper, will be posed as an experimental work's theoretic syntheses developed by Ørsted in Physics and in Chemistry; the electromagnetism "discovery", in 1820, was consequence of this syntheses. In academic and in popular scientific literature, it is assumed that Ørsted's 1812 work, as well as its 1820's facsimile published in Latin, are product, in one hand, of the Mystical-Religious thinking of the Danish, influenced by Shelling's works, and, in the other, of his Metaphysical-Speculative one, where Kant's philosophy is clearly present -paradoxically, the philosopher of Königsberg qualified as "metaphysical" the Newtonian theory, theory that permeated the scientific-social context of that times. In the present work, I'll understand Metaphysics as the rational theory of reality, and Speculation as the possibility of extending reason to empirical objects; over this base, I will regard Ørsted's work as the one developed by a scientist who tried to verify, experimentally, the metaphysical speculations of Kant and Schelling. With this proposal I pretend to break with the idea of "accidental discovery", disagreeing, at the same time, with the "discovery as heuristic" one. I will suggest, then, that Ørsted didn't discover electromagnetism: he created the imaginary configuration that established the resemblance between two phenomena considered, in that days, as something completely cut off.

Palabras llave : epistemology; electromagnetism; discovery; metaphysics; imagination.

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