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# Title: Leibnitii Protogaea. Abschrift der Protogaea von Eccard revidirt, unter dem Titel: De ortu et antiquissimo statu rerum naturalium in regionibus Brunsvico-Luneburgensibus Dissertatio (shelfmark Ms XXIII, 23b)
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edie
De antiquissime statu paturali
degronum sircensium
et Lungourgensiem
ue
ROIO LeIBAI
.Lagnarum rerum
et iam tenuis notitia mpretio
habetur. Itaque ab antiquis.
simo nostri tractus statu or
suro dicendum est aliquid de
prima facie terrarum et
soli natura contentis que Nam
editissimum Germaniae inferio
ris locum tenemus, maximeque
metallis soecundum: et domi
nobis insignes conjecturae; et
velat radii nascuntur pu-
blica lucis, unde ad caeteras
regiones aestimatio procedat.
Quod si minus assequimur
destinata, saltem exem plo
proficiemus. Nam ubi in
suo quesque curiositatem
conseret, facilius origines
communes noscentur.
II. Globum terrae, ut omnia CGloduo terra regulari primum
nascentia regulari forma e
natura manibus evusse, sa-
mentibus placet. Nam nec
Forma fuit, et ea liquido induruit.
Motria causa lua sive ignis.