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# Title: Leibnitii Protogaea. Concept und Collectanea dazu, nebst einer von Leibniz corrigierten Reinschrift. (shelfmarks Ms XXIII, 23a; MS XXIII, 23a)
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s, humore cavitatibus secutae mendatione
quae cum decune parsu
strata subinde diversa
alia aliis imponerentur
novata est saepius facies orbis
rerum aonuc teneri orbiss.
donec quiescentibus causis
atque aequilibratis, consistertior
emergeret status 
erum.
Unde jam suplex calsa incedigitur
sirmorum corporum, una cumab ignis
a fusione refrigescerent,
altera cum reconcrescerent
ex solutione aquarum
et velut columnae, supremum
cum partes firmiores hamanum locem tue
jam tum
entur Unde isti trum montes suporfuore
dessit pondus aquarum, ad alveum sibi
parandum in molli aphruc fundo, et multipti
et maro et multiplices ab inc tus spiri
es aut erumponte spirita ant premente
variaeque catates Me velut fornices aedere aut
riates at mosshera, concussiones ad
hamore incluse; denique vel pondere materiae vel erumpente
maximaeque
secuta
opiritu
pacomo fracti fornices maximagmunda
iones, quae et rutoum nova induratio de cum dejude rursus
mes strata ex sedimentis, uonee griexen
menta, deponerent per intervalla, atquehis indurescentibus
Jrous cansis atque aequilibralis consistentior
redeunte mox simuls cosusa
emergoret scatus rerum. Quae tamen
Neque igitur putandum est
non ita accipi velim quasi lapides ex sola
este
sant fuorone, id exim potissimum dopu
ma tantum massa accipio ac basi terrae
nec dubito postea materiam liqui
Super.
ficio telluris eurrentem (exramentis subactis
velate faceseee ingentem materiae vim deposuisse
vasta seclimenta cleposuisse, quorum alia vu-
rias terrae species furmanent, alia in saxa
induruere.
concrevere, e quibus strata diversa sibi
praecipitationum
super imposita diversas cecinnentorum vices
atque intervalla testantur.
Haec vero utcunque cum plausu dici possint
de incunabulis nostri orbis seminaque contineant
c
scientiae novae, quam G eographiam Natura
lem appelles; tentare tamen potius quam
astruore audcamus. Nam etsi faveant sa
cra monumenta; tamen illis judicium aefett
rimus quibus interpritandi nus est pet licet con-
spirent vestigia. veleris mundiem prason:
si facio rorum; tamen rectius omnia definient
arita
aut spente montibur
rumpente opluent
perruinas expu
 faculta
incendiis
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