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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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niae: Sin montes nova elur
vione oppressit, bis fornucata
erat, extercorque cavitas
aqua, interior aere sarta;
ita priore rupto aquant in
montes ascenderit, mox posse
riore. fracto, in abyssum ulter
riorem penetrarit, terrestribus
que habitatoribus iterum
indulserit in sueo locum.
Inquibus sane exeplicandis
iuvare nes possunt aliquae
ingeniosi Scriptoris medita
tiones, qui nuper sacram
telluris Theoriam dedit, mon
lesque etiam et valles ea
ruinis formavit, Scriptaque
nonnulla eruditorum homin
num, quorum ille studium
eacitavit. Nec athorrentia
quae dam de ruinis et sediment
Lis cogitaverat jam ante
Stenonius, non contemnenda
Europae parte lustrata, et
fractorum fornicum vestigiis
passim notatis, ut saepe ipsum
nobis narrantem audire mei
mini, ac gratuiantem sibi,
quod sacra historiae, et gene
ralis diluvii fidem natura-
libus argumentis non sine