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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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mam faciat partem reliqui
globi. Ita nihel prohiberet,
quae nunc cernimus, emersisse:
aut, si pars altior jam ante
extabat, tum demum homines
a summis. jugis, (ut Scythae
objiciebant Agyptica:) in no-
vas sedes, et celebratam Mosi
vallem dinear descendisse:
forsan cogente etiam frigore,
cum recessu maris ad inferiora
ipsi quasi in altiorem aeris
regionem sublati viderentur
quae jam non aeque vaporis
bus temperaretur. Sed si aqua
firmata jam tellure, a depres
siori loco in ipsos altissimes
montes naturali causa ascene
dit in dilavio, alia ad huc
molitio accersenda est. Pluvia
per se non sufficiunt, nisi aer
olim multo, quam nunc, aquo
sior suit. Oceanum spiritu ex
terra cercum erumpente ve
lut fornice sustentatum,
undique surreaisse in orbem,
parum credibile est. Intu.
muisse velut inflatam
ipsam telluris superfici-
em, ad pristinum fusionis