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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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commissuras disperguntur, pror
sus ut in animalibues, vel plan-
tis vasa majora in capillaria
filamenta discedunt, tandem
que in stamina oculis imper-
ceptibilia evanescunt. Nec
sane dubito diligenti observa-
tione principia constitui pos
se aliquando, unde nascantur
regulae conjiciendi de abditis
sub terra, velut foliis metal-
lorum, longe illes meliores,
quae passim ex levi causa,
et praesertim esc mundi pla
gis receptae inter fossores, ma-
gis traditione, quam successu
celebrantur. Ntam quae gene
ra in ipsa terrae superficie
eoceunt in Tucem, aut info-
dina innotuere, ea eae strato.
rum procurrentium legibus in-
dicia in vianiam extendent.
Et peculiares sibi matrices u-
num quodque genus amat. Ita
galena in spatho frequenis
habitat; specularis lapis saexe
abastritae conterminus jacet;
pyrites cum ere et sulphur
praebet. Schistum quoque ardo.
sium ces diligit; Argentum
vivum in cinnabari latet
Prodit ante annos non ila