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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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tantum praestitit saqua ees
venhroseui Delphensis diligene
tia, ut saepe indigner humao
nae ignaviae, qua aperire ocur
les, et in paratam scientiae
possessionem ingredi non di
gnatur. Nam si saperemus,
jam passim ille imitatores
haberet.
VII. ed illustriora omnia Piscium variorum formae in ardosia unde.)
exemplo erunt inquisitionis
in memorabile apud nosopis
natura, super scissili lapide
aerosas piscim formas exhie
bentis. Nimirum in Islebia
saxoniae opido ditionis Mans:
seldicae, et nuper prope no-
stram Hercyniae Osterodam.
effoditur lapis niger folia
tus, quem merito, s: licet
alioquam vulgo lensuschi
stum appelles; quidam Ardor
siam semilatino verbo vocant.
In eo crebrae visuntur pi.
scium formae, exacte et asjac
bre delineatae, quasi artifeu
nigro lapidi sectilem metal-
li materiam inseruisset,
ichthyomorphum aliqui in-
digitant. Constat Ardosi
um sissilem esse, et ea solus