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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction: Traditions of Analysis and Synthesis (William Newman).- Chapter 2. The dark side of sunthesis? Fraud and substitutions in Graeco-Roman pharmacology (Laurence Totelin).- Chapter 3. Spagyria, Scheidung, and Spagürlein: The Meanings of Analysis for Paracelsus (Didier Kahn and William R. Newman).- Chapter 4. Chymistry goes Further: Sensible Principiata and Things Themselves over the Longue Durée (Joel Klein).- Chapter 5. Philosophical Methods of Analysis and Synthesis from Medieval Scholasticism to Descartes and Hobbes (Helen Hattab).- Chapter 6. A Fresh Look at Newton's Method of Analysis and Synthesis (Alan Shapiro).- Chapter 7. Descartes, Leibniz, and Newton on analysis and synthesis (Niccolò Guicciardini).- Chapter 8. Knowing Diseases and Medicines Forwards and Backwards: Analysis and Synthesis in Early Modern Academic Medicine (Evan Ragland).- Chapter 9. Cutting Through the Epistemic Circle: Analysis, Synthesis, and Method in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Anatomy (Tawrin Baker).- Chapter 10. Taxis and Texture: Johann Daniel Major (1634-1693) on Spirits, Salts, and the Limits of Analysis (Vera Keller).- Chapter 11. Phenomena and principles: Analysis-synthesis and reduction-deduction in 18th-century experimental physics (Friedrich Steinle).- Chapter 12. Analysis and induction as methods of empirical inquiry (Jutta Schickore).- Chapter 13. From Chemical Analysis to Analytical Chemistry in Germany, 17901862 (Peter Ramberg).- Chapter 14. Questioning the symmetry between analysis and synthesis in chemical practices (Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent).- Chapter 15. Contesting the Musical Ear: Hermann von Helmholtz, Gottfried Weber and Carl Stumpf Analyzing Mozart (Julia Kursell).
