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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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plausu dici possint de incuna
bulis nostri orbis, semina que
contineant scientiae novae, quam
Geographium Naturalem appel-
les, tentare tamen potius quam
astruere audemus. Nam et si
faveant suera monumenta, ta
men illes judicium deferimus,
quibus interpretandi jus est;
et licet conspirent vestiqia veleris
mundi, in praesenti facie re
rum, tamen rectius omnia de
finient posteri, udi curiesitas
mortalium eo processerit, ut per
regiones procurrentia soli genera,
et strata describant. Neque vero
omnem terrae scabritiem, aut fun
di naturam primae concretioni
imputavero, sufficit a generali
bus cau sis duxisse sceleton ipsum,
et velut ossamenta terrae eate
rioris et totius structurae sum-
mam; Unde immanis Oceane
cavitas, et insanae montium
moles sint natae; velut mac
continuatum Caucaso et Tauro
jugum. Atlasque Africam pro:
begens, et Lunae montes, quibus
Aethiopia habitabilis facta est,
et maximus editissimorum cacu-
minum per Americae longitusinem