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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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perce pretium autem LMineralium generationem
facturum artitrori qui na
turae effecta eoc subterraneis
eruta diligentius conferet
cum saetibus laboratorium
sic enim Chemicorum officinas
vocamus: quando mira per.
saepe in nalis et factis si-
melitudo apparet. Nam
et si ejusdem rei plures cau:
sas in potestate habeat di
tissimus rerum parens, aniat
tamen et constantiam in
varretate. Et magnum est
ad res noscendas vel unam
producendi rationem obtinu-
isse: quemadmodum Geome
trae ex uno modo describendi
figuram omnes ecus proprie
tates derivant. Praeterea,
ubi similia instrumenta
et vasa occurrunt; ignis
cum sulphuribles, aquaecum
salibus; et genera terrarum
lapidumve, communia et
nostris, et naturae officines;
tutius similem cognatis cor-
Poribus originem assignes, quam
diversam nullo experimento
cognitam ex ingenio fingas.
Merrua illuotrat. )