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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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Fragmina conchyliorum
intra echinum cum margae
deprehensa; minora tamen
semper foramine echine, ne
dubites extrorsum venisse
Aliquando materia inclu
sa conchylio ab ambiente
diversa est, ut prius im-
pletum; deinde transla
tum videatur. Neque
Ossea illa corpora radices
agunt in matricem saceam
Tilamentaque propagant,
quasi illie nata; sed velut
insulam faciunt sui juris,
propriaque ac saepe polita
superficie terminantur. Nec.
marga tantum aut certa
terrae genera hos velut fru-
itus serunt, sed saepe totum
saxum, glarea et varu colo-
ris lapilli, et steriles arenae
grumi componunt, anima
lium spoliis interstincti;
ut facile intelligas, in unum
omnia cumulum pari sato
collecta usdem vinculis
caementata cohaesisse.
V. Quanto exactius intro. (Conchylia et ossa anim alium marinorum
spreies ipsas corporum par-
les, eo minus de origine
quae effodiuntur, ecaminari et resolvi possunt
aeque ac verorum animalium partes.)