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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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neque unquam a Symmetria
abit animal, aut magnitu
dinem habet non suam. Sed
vereor, ne, uti nimis validi
ietus in autorem repercuti
untur, ita nimiae simili
tudinis argumentum. in con-
trarium valeat. Santa pi-
scium simulatorum cum veris
convenientia est; pinnis
ipsis squamisque ad minu-
tias usque eapressis; tanta:
que imaginum frequentia
in eodem loco visitur, ut
manifestiorem constantio
remque causam suspecte-
mus quam aut casum lu
dentem, aut semina les ne
scio quas ideus, nanca phi-
losophorum vocabula. Quid
erge si lacum ingentem
cum piscibus suis, vel terrae
motu vel aquarum vi, vel
alia magna causa dicamus
obrutum terris; quae deinde
in lapidem duratae impres:
si piscis vestigia, et velut
ectypos molli ante massae
impresses, et postremo con-
sumptis dudum animalis