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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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phwebende und fallendo
tange
tra lence lomnia
Geometris nola
de superiore adhuc loco
nisi exonorat superfluum humentis terrae:
peulo apoet idemque alibi continger vix
ambigo. Late autem prospicitur mons, et
prospicit in Germanicum maro, nec id mi-
rum et accidero potest Geometricus rationes
in eadem
accepimus sed loco multum inferiore
regione
cinia inferoris longe (ellerfelsae, opidi me.
oE
tallariis habitati incensium ante alique
accepimus
annos ex Hamburgi propugnaculis noctu visun
quae sodium, eruuntur non in
Metalla autemn ipso Bructoro licet
haud
mineratium rorum non experte, sed medioni-
bus Hercyniae rugis; aliqua et subpesibus
est
eorum
fodiontur
montrum fociuatur. Sec tantaque copia quan
tam atibi vix hodie monstres uno loco nostri
continentis. Nam vel plumbi nigri selius
i
incredibilis copia,
quotannis contenarum librarum poncera
quadraginta millia et ultra ex vena materia
etiquantur. Vena est velat velut fotium
quoddam sive stratum sub terra longe la:
teque procurrons, crassitiei mesiorris, in quo
pecutiare genus terrae, saxi, aut metalli, ab
ambientibus divisum. Nec melius quam
Conicarum
omicaram sectionum simititudine illu.
stratur. Nam qua nostris venae pensentes
dicuntur ea terminantur in circuti aut
Ellipseos modum; quae vero casentes, ea
quasi in infinitum doscensunt ad inferiora
ut hyperbola parabolave. Et propna
cuique generirura sunt in portionibus assi-
gnancis, propriae fosiondi rationes, unde
figu