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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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illis eadem via argentum in-
fundunt. Ia demum remoto
putamine inveniunt argente
um animal, omni pedum et ca
pillamentorum apparatu, si
brillisque ad stuporem assimu
latis.
IX. Neque adeo mirari opor. (Ignem inefoe geobo nostro matus term.
Tet calorem terras coquentem
in lapidem aut metalla in
minerales massas fundentem,
aut materiam in sigurata
corpora sublimantem; aut re-
miltente solutione atque aes
tu deponentem in crystallos.
Cum plerique credant ignem
esse inclusum huic globo, cu
jus vix crusta nobis explora
ta est; et terrae motus vali-
dissimi pyrios intus cuniculos;
et Vuleani ingentes late paten-
tia pyrophylacia ostendant.
Certe nupera terrae concussio
anni 1691 ab Ialia ad nostras
usque fines pervenit, quanquam
visurgim non trans gressa. Ha-
bentur et passim fodinae li
Thanthracum maleria que sul
phuris, quae et mineras nostras
Geslarienses implet. Et alicubi
nativum sulphur pulchellum
et trans lucidum rubini aut
Valcane, paeecaeo, vectemet et alae oolendunt.