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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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poris longitudine ditatis. Se
mere fiditur narrationibus
hominum, qui credulitate sua
alienave fallere fallive mo
rem fecerunt; qui homunculas
aut monachos plutonios labo-
ris subterranei socios vident;
qui virgula divina abditos
tellure thesauros ruspantur;
et tamen ubi oculos obliga
veris, nec maximas notissi-
masque venas micantis ba
culi indicio agnoscunt. Huri
semina Cortachii Waldeccio.
rum, aut ferri in Elva insu-
la nequicquam quaeras. li
nianae autoritati stenonii di-
legentiam oppono. Neque us
pram compertum est nostris
fossoribus excisum spathum
cum plumbo suo rursus ve-
getasse, non magis quam
marmor erutum lapidiois,
aliave id genus; quae sapien.
ter ture consultus Romanus
in usu fructu esse negavit,
cum non renaseantur. Non
tamen nego puteos esse aut
cuniculos ubi denuo agnascitur
minera, et viae portaeque
arctantur, quod in Rammelo