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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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dendit
statos referantur, de quibus
omnibus extant eruditorum
conjecturae; nosque ipsi satis,
credibile (. ni fallor:) secimus, pi
sces in scissili lapide ex veris
animalibus velut eclypos super
fuisse.
NMIIIEt sane plerumque video, Non vero luous naturae. Hue tamen non
quanto quisque in observando
diligentior et cum natura
Familiarior fuit, eo proniorem
in nostram sententiam visum;
ut peritissimi viri merito ani-
malium exuvias aut aliarum
rerum reliquias putent obru-
Fai, nec facile persuaderi sibi
patiantur organica corpora
sine exemplo, sine resu, sine
seminis, praeter naturae con-
suetredinem, in limo sanove,
ineptis matricibus, nescio qua
plastica facultate natas. Nam
removere hine oportet radia
ta quaedam corpora polygo
norum que figuras regulares
in crystallis, in granato, in
reliquis gemmis et fluoribus,
et variis mineris; tum in
sexangula nive, in apum al
veolis; in vitriolo etiam et
alumine, et communi sale,
nitroque, et sale de connu
pertinent, polygonorum figurae in Crystalliis
aliisque rebur, nec ea, quae praeocu pata
imaginatio solum videt in saociai)