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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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appellatus. Etenim cum ei
natura dederit cympani
figuram: ejus pars rotunda.
laevis est, utraque vero lata
habet quendam qua si modu
lum, a quo undique radii ad
extimam orbis partem, quae
ipsis loco est canthorum
procedunt ita eminentes,
ut striae fiant. Multum
variat quantitate, sed mi
nimus adeo parvus est, ut
maximus decupeo major sit.
Manimus vero est latus
digitum transversum: crassus
tertiam ejusdem partem, aut
amplues. Differt colore: nam
aut cinereus est, aut negre
cat, aut luteus est. Sed is
maqis propter contagionem
terrae talis esse solet. Intus
enim caeteris candidior. Omnis
fractus, lapidis Judaice instar
laevis est et nitet. Frangitur
autem similiter ut ille in
longum, latum, obliquum:
in acetum imposilus, ut
Astroites bullas agit: atque
etiam reperitur interdum,
qui se tanquam astroites
moveat de loco.
At ea trochitis non-
dum separatis constat
Entrochus, modo ea ternis,
modo