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# Title: Leibnitii Protogaea. Concept und Collectanea dazu, nebst einer von Leibniz corrigierten Reinschrift. (shelfmarks Ms XXIII, 23a; MS XXIII, 23a)
# Folio 36r, page id 00067941:0067
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liquae 
per sactum
tiam
nourus
strata
assitde
sarimis
dercn
entra
antem
godd
argu.
hitectam
truoret.
ulicatam
mare
in nati
ari
formilesque
es
dutageant strerichu
dubi diligenti observatione priacipia con
stitui posse aliquando, unde nascantur regu
codiendi de abditis subterra, ut sic
licam foliis metallorum, longe illis melio
res quae passim ex lovi causa et praesertim
ex mundi plagis receptae inter foisores, ma-
gis trasitione quam successu celobrantur
Nam quae genora ipsa terra superficie exe
unt in lucem aut in fodina mnoturo ex
stratorum procurrentium logibus insicia
in vianiam extendent. Et pecutiares
sibi matrices unumquodque gonus amat. ita
galena in sphatho frequons habitat, sne
cularis lapis saepe Alabastritae contermi
nus jacet, perites cumaere et sulphur
prabet, Schictum quou arasium aes
diligit, Argentum vivum in cinnabari
sabet. Prodiit ante annos non ita mul-
tos quidam Alexancii Achillis nomine
sumto homo militaris et perogninator:
15 quod votis magis quaerimus quam spe
pracsimus detineare ausus est magna
telluren
xem venas; quasi retectam perspenisset
perrutrassetque unus mortarium
Omnia sub magna labentia flumina terra
Ses tamen vel cogitasie laudandus est
quod longo seculorum stucio quaen mere–
Metallurgi passim
atur nictanurgi quidam vulgan noti–
one venas pro truncis ramisque habent, quasi
vegetatione crevissent; scilicot qura
velut
corpusejus