# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com
# Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00067938:0074
# Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00067938:0074?run=39
# 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)
# Folio [43]v, page id 00067938:0074
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=00067938&page=74
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/00067938/jpgs/default/00000074.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 39, 2026-08-27T09:55:26Z — 34 lines, status machine
# Lines: 34 recognised, mean confidence 0.97
# Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German.
# Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text.
# Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote".
# After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line.

apud Bethleem peregrinato.
ribus notantunt. Valerius Cor-
dus nostras meminit judaici
lapidis vertebrae piscium si-
milis. Lapis est Asterias dictus
stellae pentagonae speumen
referens, quarum multae sibi
impositae columellam. Stria
tam componunt. Et suspica
tur Gassendus ea spoliis at
que incisuris quorundam ver
mium formari e Nempe Tro-
chitas quoque et ea his con-
flatos Entrochos vertebris
similes cum processibus, seu
apophysibus Lachmundus
prosse Hildesiam invenit.
Ubi et Cordus olim apud
Agricolam vidit in commis.
Puris marmoris e cinereo can
didi; et in terra glutinosa
atque inter Alseldam et
Eimbeccam urbes; sic lapis
est Anglis a S. Cuthberto
cognominatus caudam ani-
malis referens, ex plurimis
articulis continuatam, qui
ea insula affertur in lilore
Northumbriae, quam danctam
appellant. Sunt et quaedam
hujus generis, quae ad corallu
articulati ramos saxo inou
Asteriae magnu cop pussim in nosteis regionibus inveniuntur. Esse autem exstenus Marchis ostendi
Cl. Rosinus mundenti. Laxaniae nostra Kentmanuus et naturalium forutata ingniosus.