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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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Tinctione caloris. Unde nescio
an omnis gemmarum origo
ab aqua sit, ut vulgo sibi
persuadent. Certe qui qua-
dam rudimenta gemmarum,
fluores appellarant (: qualis
ille est caeruleus, ex quo phes-
phorus smaragdinus paratur.
qui hausto tantum calore lui
cet:) fusionem in mente ha-
buere. Verissimum esse fateor.
materiam solutam mode cry:
stallifico frigore siguras anqu
losque accipere, sunt tamen
quae non tantum aqua, sed
et igne solvuntur, nec tantum
eo liquore, sed et ea sumo in
corpus recollecta geometrico
naturae artificio sigurantur.
Crystalle montanae, aliaeque
gemmae, ipsique adamantes
saepe reperiuntur in cavita
tibus saxorum, et Drusis, ut
vocant fossores, de quibus
mox aliquid dicemus. Apud
Golcondam adamantes egregies
ajunt a sabulo praeberi. Sed
fieri potest, ut vi aquarum
confricatuque glarcae diuturno
et violento evolverentur tgem-
mae putamine un quo nata.
erant, Cujus natura mollior