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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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petrae Melitensibus similes
hoc est, eanum marinorum
dentes, prope Luneburgum
eruuntur; de quibus omnibus
mox dicemus distinctius.
sunt, que eousque licentia
conjectandi procedant, ut
tegente omnia Oceano ani
malia, quae nunc terram ha-
bitant, aliquando aquatica sue
isse arbitrentur, paula limque
destituente elemento amphibia,
postremo in posteritate sua
primas sedes dedidicisse; sed
pugnant ista eum sacris scri-
ptoribus a quibus discedere
religio est Ilud nuncxpotiust
dispiciendum; unde suppeditata
tanta moles aquarum, quae
montes superaret, et quo dein:
de delata, ut arida sibi recde
retur. Luidam ingenioso magis,
quam expedito commentorem
sola mulatione centri terrae
peragunt: ita gravium incli.
nationem alio versam, et ser
vata licet superficie, tamen
altitadinem et humilitatem
locorum permutatas, quod iste
non per se, sed centri vicinia