The Notion of Experience in Oswald Croll's Basilica Chymica
In his Basilica Chymica,the German physician Oswald Croll(1560-1609)presented a detailed and in-depth interpretation of the key doctrines of Paracelsian natural philosophy.He inherited and developed Paracelsus's notion of experiential investigation,and upon this,he made efforts to create a new kind of natural philosophy that could be in harmony with Christian doctrines.Croll combined the spagyric art of alchemy with the Christian idea of revelation,and he regarded them as two theoretic pillars of new medicine.Furthermore,he gave examples of application for the inner experience in his treatise on the signature,which exerted a profound influence.Although the quasi-mystical experience of Croll is very different from that of modern science,it is still closely related to the development of later alchemical tradition through the reception and diffusion of Böhme's works.
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