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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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Neque enim aliud est natura
quam ars quaedam magna:
nec semper toto genere a na
tivis factitia distinguuntur:
nec refert, eandem ne rem da
dalus aliquis Vulcanius in
furno inveniat, an lapicida
eoc terrae visceribus proferat
n lucem. Et quanquam de
nova per artem generatione
metallorum, aut corporum
similarium simpliciorum
nihil affirmare velim; nec
satis dicere ausim, un aurum
argentumque aut hydrargy
rum, vel salem eliam de
novo produxerit aut etiam
vere destruxerit quisquam:
puto tamen non minus eti-
am rarum esse ipsamnet
naturam deprehendere
edentem hos foetus; plerum
que enim dudum alibi con-
ceptos colligit tantum de
legitque. Vereor enim ut
fidem tueantur, quae narrant
aliqui de nascente iterum aure
in expositis ad solem arenis
iam tum clotis; aut de re-
jectamentis minerarum, vel
laminis tegularum ipsa tem.