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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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Cbur quoque fossile eo
dem, quo Glossopetras alia
que marina, loco prope Lu
neburgum erui dictum est.
Ac de ebore quidem suspicio
venit aliquando non tam
ea Elephantis esse cornu
quam a Rosmari dente, Eque
scilicet marini aut similis
de phocarum ingentium ge-
nere animalis, (. Watrossen.)
quorum greges in Oceano se
plentrionali piscatoribus ba-
lenarum occurrunt, et parati
eoc dentibus capuli eburneis
etiam prastantiores, et cando
ris servantiores censentur.
Balenae vertebram petrifica
tam in Musaeo habet Lach-
mundus Medicus Aildesiensis.
XXNII. Conringuus mi- (De ossibus, maxilles, cranuis et dantibus
hi testis erit ex specubus no-
stris celeberrimis, Baumannia
no et Scharzseldensi, mari-
narum belluarum, aliorum
que ignoti orbis ancmali-
lium ossa integra frequen
ter erui, neutiquam ibina
ta, sed transtata illue
ea Oceano, violentia
aquarum. Et vero possum
ego, inquit, monstrare
volentibus
minoribus et majoribus, quae in antris
et alibi etiam apud nos inveniuntur.