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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 summo, jam Georguis Agri
cola nolavit. Unde prona su
spicio est, quod exiquis speci-
minibus nos ludimus, natu
ram magnis operibus execu
tam; cui montes sunt pro
Alembicis. Vulcani pro furniis.
Auripigmentum, quod in sur
cica ditione copiose eruitur,
alii arte tentant, et duoram
Sandaracam ea proprii gene-
ris minera educendam etiam
sulphure et arsenico, id est
cobalti, sumo imitari licet.
Bismuthum autem nihil ali
ud, quam ejusdem eobalti
regulum, seu corpus esse sci
mus, fortasse et a natura
alicubi eliquatum.
L. Ed auripigmento viignis L Gemmarum generatio naturalis et artificialis.)
attollitur rubini quoddam seu
carbunculi genus; fragilius.
quidem nativo, sed nos nec
tam magnos adhidere ignes
possumus, nec tam diuturnos
quam. Vulcanus hypogaeus,
ubi fortasse fusa aliquando
vide seculorum refrigeratione
induruere. Constat autem
Facilius frangi, quae prom:
tius constitere, subita ex