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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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ea terminantur in circule
aut ellipseos modum; quae vero
cadentes, eae quasi in infinitum
descendunt ad inferiora, ut
yperbolae para bolave. Geome
tris notae. Et propria cuique
generi jura sunt in portio
nibus assignandis, propriae
fodiendi rationes. Unde pu
tei cadentium venarum jus
profunditatis habent in in
finitum, caeterarum nihil
minus. Et qui pendentes
angustiores exercent sodi
endo, ut nuper Osterodam
Splebia vocati, torticollarum
nomen accepere ab operis
modo, eum ercecti esse non
possint. Jam credibile est
multa strata quae olim
horizontalia erant, cum
fonnices telluris in sua in-
tegritate perstabant, postea
subsidente crusta ruinisve
orbis, inclinata fuisse in
descensum. Quid enim na-
turalius, quam in ipsa for:
matione es liquido, sive cum
berrarum orbis primum con,
crevit, sive cum mundatio.
nes magnae postea sedimenta