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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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nos terram; unam cum pl
sces in suo lacu essent, al
teram, postquam obrutis
imposita est ingens mate
riae mollis moles, quae tan-
dem sive igne, sive 90rgo
nio vapore, aut salibus,
sive tempore ipso in diversa
lapidis scissilis strata secesi
sit. Cui impositae rupes
durissimae atque his demum
argilla superiecta, ac postre
mo communis terra nigri
cans, nata est, quam nune
homines colunt: et licet
velimus lacus illos, antequam
obruerentur subterraneos
fuisse, necesse est tamen,
supremam terrae superfi-
ciem, quae tunc fuit, pror
sus convulsam, commutatam
que intercidisse. Quidam
Hispanus de duplici viven-
tium terra olim conrectu-
ras edidit. Sed omnia altius
expenderat Vir egreqies, qui
de solido intra solidum scri.
poit, eoque inclinabat: ut
olim per summorum montium
ruga telluris planities inces.
serit, fractos deinde fornices,
ubi minus firmi erant, in