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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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Contra subtiles quidam man-
gones mineraluum rarcores
formas, velut argentum rade
rubrum et vilriforme et ca-
pillare, ut curiosos fallant,
in foculo imitantur: ila
prosunt decipiendo, docent
que artem naturae, cujes
effecta ea pressere.
IV. Interea Tatendum est, FFormas quaedam acupiunt a motu aquarum
ut rotunda inter capides et metalla.)
quaedam formas accipere
solo motu aquarum, ut ca
lorem advocare necesse non
sit, quae dam indigere opera
utriusque. Nil dico de si-
licibus torrentium diuturna
provolutione tornatis Certe
nihil porohibet grana me-
talli cursu altrituque re
tundata esse; ut saccarata
Virdunensia, cum aliquam.
diu agitantur. Cernuntur
qassim politi silices in mon-
tium parietibus, ippsis que Al
qibus, a natura caementati,
magno indicio, postquam
diuturna aquarum porevo
lutio attriverat, saxificabi.
li terrae haesisse, post no
vis ruenis iterum detecta
apparuisse. Unde etiam