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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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a fossoribus in terrae visceri.
bus meatibusque conchylia,
et unicornu, quod vocant, aut
ebur, et lignum fossile, tur.
bines, brontiae trochoides, ac
glossopetrae denique reperi-
antur. Agricola, aliique
eum secuti ea fodinis alur
minis, Luneburgenses Glasso.
petras petunt: sed has ager
iste omnis ignorat, nec mo-
dum aluminis parandi novit,
nec au Corneri chronicon ve-
tus ineditum, aut alia loci
monumenta aluminis uspi-
am meminere. Et cum con-
stet ejus coquendi artem
vix trecentis abhinc annis
a Rocca Syriae in Europam
rediisse (: unde aluminis roc
c non intellecta vulgo ap:
pellatio:) atque in Ialia
primum exercitam, serius
in Germaniam penetrasse,
satis manifestum arbitror
recentes satis s: si quae su.
issent:) aluminis Lune bur-
gici officinas esse debere,
aut potius, quia res pro-
pinqua et celebris memori-
um hominum et annotantium