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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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in officinis facimus naturam
suo quovam modo in ipsis
terra recessibus egisse. Subla
matione enim utriusque pa-
rentis per vim caloris con-
stat pulchellam sobolem
nobis nasci. In vicinis Gos.
lariae fornacibus Langeshei
mensibus, quas Brunsvicen-
ses magistri exercent ad
Indristae flumen eliquatur
venae genus, quod plumbum
atque aes praebet. Illic duo
insignia naturae imitamen
ta visuntur: Zincum et mi
nera lapidis, quem vocant ca
laminarem. Lincum fumo e
vectum intus adhaeret, mox
que eocimitur. Sed alius fumus
parietem fornacis lentius in
crustat, cujus fragmina dudum
abiecta, nunc pro lapide ca-
laminari adhibentur, et aeri
colorem aureum tribuetes, fa
ciunt quod orichateum appel
lamus. Interim ajunt. Zincum
nativum ea remotissimo Ori-
ente a Satavis afferri. Et
calaminarem. lapidem etiam
in Germania effodi constat.
Et amiantho similem materi
am igne indomitam ea fyrita
Goslariae tertium usto exudasse