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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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vulgo narrant, ea latio ca
melorum in arena cum sa-
le marino, et sut aliqui ad
dunt) fuligine misla; qua
si cocuntibus tribus nature
regnis, suspecto mihi arti
ficio. Eundem tamen salem
arte parare quidam spon
dent, et amicus in forna
cibus quidus dam casu no-
tavit
II. De argento aurove, l. Argentum et narim aliaque metalla
aut alio metallo, quod sta diere in venis.
Tim suum est, vel certe ob-
ryzo accedit; suspicari pro-
nissimum est non sine vi
ignis in metallicum corpus
ivisse; usque adeo, ut alicu
bi ambientis quasi catini
usorii, figuram assumsis
se videatur certe in Alada
strile Northusano non ita
pridem argentum grancla-
tum repertum est. MMemeni
quasdam massulas metalli.
cas recentes ea fodina ad
me delatas, quas susione
nuper paratas esse, jovem
lapidem artifices ruravissent.
Itae natura pro homine imponit
qua statim sua sunt, vi ignis pro-