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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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sim
eandem originem judicemus,
ubi terra in lapidem versa
est.
VI.ua contra ingerunt
viri docti, parum gravant.
Aegre sibi persuadent quidam,
mare in summis montibus
fuisse, aut illic res marinas
extitisse: scilicet quia nimis
ea praesenti facie aestimant
veterem terra vultum, et di-
Luvium omne non nisi a plu
viis petunt; non satis con-
siderantes aliquando magnae
abyssi raptos fontes exundas
Se. Alii mirantur in saxis
passim species videri, quas
vel in orbe cognito, vel sal
tem in vicinis locis frusta
quaeras. Ita cornua Hammo-
nis, quae ea Nautilorum nu
mero habeantur passim et
forma et magnitudine s:nam
et pedali diametro aliquando
reperiri) ab omnibus illis na
luris discrepare, quas praebet
mare. Sed quis absconditas ejus
recessus, aut subterraneas abys.
sos pervestigavit: quam multa
nobis animalia antea ignota
offert novus orbis. Et credibile
est, per magnas illas conversiones
Antiguissimis temporibus maria vicina
habuerant animalia et conchylia, qua
jam ibi non inveniuntur.