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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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aqua in glaciem consistit;
dum contra corrodentes liquo:
res et ab occulto motu fortes
difficulter congelantur. Calor
autem motusve intestinus ab
igne est, seu luce, id est te
nuissimo spirita permeante.
Atque ita ad motricem causa
perventum est, unde sacra
quoque sistoria. Cosmogenia
initium capit.
ll. Quousque ergo pertinge
re hominum notitia potest,
sive ratiornatione, sive
scripturarum traditione, pri-
mus est formationis rerum
gradus, separatio lucis et
tenebrarum, id est agentium
et patientium; secundus, pa
trentium interse discrimi:
natio, id est liquidorum di-
scessio a siccis, quae duo distin-
quuntur pro diversa in pa
trentious resistendi facultater
et gradu, sirmitatis. Iaque
incendiis et inundationibus
varie transformata sunt cor-
pora. Et quae nune opaca et
sicca cernimus, arsisse initio,
mox aquis hausta fuisse, tan-
demque secretis elementis
in praesentem vultum emer:
Distinctior de globi terrei creatione
sententia et de basi illius.)