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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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reliquiis metallica materia
oppletos servarunt. Nec jam
valde disputo, quae causa ex
terra ardosium lapidem fecerit,
ad duoceritque metallum in cavi-
lates. Fieri potest, ut quem
ad modum. in fornacibus ex ar-
gilla coctiles lapides humana
arte formantur, ita magnus
naturae ignis pro variis terrac
rum generibus atque misturis,
nunc ardosium, nune alabastri
tem coxerit, aliudve petrae
genus; metallica interim ma-
terra, quae tolo limo disper
sa erat, vi caloris eaudante,
et in cavitates illas sese col-
ligente, quas reliquerat puncit.
Hlujus enim volatilis materia
dudum tempore aut calore con-
sumta facile locum secit.
Habemus aliquid simile in
auri sabrorum artificiis; liben
ter enim occulta naturae ma-
nifestis hominum operibus con-
fero. Straneum aut aliud ani-
mal materia apta obruunt,
aditu tamen euiquo relicto;
materiam igne coquunt in la
pidem inde hydrargyro immis.
so cineres animalis per fora-
men eliciunt, postremo pro