Croll Basilica Chymica

The same example was given in Oswald Croll, Basilica Chymica (1609) see Hannaway, The Chemists, 37. 

Plate 18. Oswald Croll, Basilica Chymica, Frankfurt, no date (1629, first ed. 1608). The same design was used in the Latin edition, 1611. By permission of Thames Hudson, Ltd. 

Keynes MS. 12A, fol. V, quoted in B.J.T. Dobbs, Newton s Alchemy and His Theory of Matter , Isis, 73 (1982), p. 515. Dobbs suggests Stoic pneuma as Newton s source. I am rather inclined to think that sources closer to him, namely the works of Paracelsus and his followers formed the background of Newton s notion of spirit as expressed in the Keynes MS. 12A. Cf. O. Croll, Basilica Chymica (n. 13), pp. 42, 54. 

FIGURE 96. Title page of the Basilica Chymica (Frankfurt, 1611) by Oswald Croll, perhaps the major early source of Paracelsan chemical lore. 

Figure 96 is from the 1611 edition of Basilica Chymica, by Oswald Croll, which was printed in subsequent editions for 100 years. It is credited for passing the knowledge of Paracelsus and his followers into the seventeenth century. 

On Rosenberg see ibid., pp. 875-76 Evans, op. cit. n. 55, pp. 140-43 above, n. 57. De signaturis was first published together with Croll s Basilica Chymica (Frankfurt C. Mamius and J. Aubry s heirs, 1609), sig. to m, with separate pagination. 

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