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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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tempus pertinetset Vulcani
regnum, quo tempore massa
mollis tenaaque erat,or
duram jam et fragilem cru-
stam non cadit. Eaterna, ut
cometae transitum in vicinca,
aut lunam propiorem, quam
nunc, quibus attrahentibus
aquae emicuerint, accersere
non ausim, neque mutatae
gravium directioni, centrove
confido. Quod si obviis insi.
stendum est, nil propius vi
detur, quam ut credamus, fra-
eto telluris fornice, ubi infor.
mioribus fuleris sustentaba
tur, ingentem massam nuda:
tis Cacuminitus in subje
etum anteaque inelusum
mare procubuisse: jla aquas
antris expressas supra montes
ex undasse; donee reperto novo
in sartara aditu, perfractisque
repagulis claustrorum interio
ris ad huc terrae, quicquid nune
siccum cernitur, denuo deseru-
ere Itaque si aqua telluris
crustam semel inde afforma-
ione texeit, sufficit unus for