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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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psasati
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cetevote
nosite
ennidus
totam
=de nova per artem
generatione metallorum
aut corporum semicarium
simpliciorum nihil asfirmare vela
Rufim; videontamem
uto tamen nec nat
mari aut argenti aut hydragyri
aut salis etiam de ono temere
 satis dicere ausim
an aurum veu
Hargentumque vel aurum, aut
hydrargyrum, vel salem
etiam producentem de novo
nors produxerito aut
etiam vere
visquam
dest
u
et
ales
lapiclla ex terrae viscerbus proferat
in tucm. Etquanquam de auri aut ar-
on aut Hytrargyn aut satis nitrivo
alioru metallorum aut similarium sim.
olicadium nova parartem genovationa nihil
E
e, nob
ranem  ipsammet naturam doprehendore
edontem hos fatus: plorumque enim dludum
concepios alibi, colligit tantum detegitque
terearcium, ut fidem tueantur, quaenar-
rant auqui de nascente iterum auro in
expositis ad solem aronis iamtum elotisi
aut ad rejectamentis minorarum vel
ipsa
Caminis tegularum, temporis longitudine
fiditur creditur
achalis. Temoro fiditur narrationibus
hominum, qui credulitate sua alienavo
fallore fallive morem fecorunt; qui ho-
munculos aut monachos plutonios labo-
subterraneia
ris ur sqcios vident; qui virgula divina
abditos tellure thesauros ruspantur; et
tamen ubi sculos obtigavoris, nec maximas
notissimasu venas micantis bacuti indico
agnoscunt. Huri semina Corbachii Wal-
decciorum, aut ferri in Elva insula
Pliniana
nequicquam quaeras. plonisimae autontati
stenonii ditigentiam oppono Nequopiam
compertum est nostris fostoribus, excisum
Spathum cum plumbo suo rursus vegetasse;
non magis quam marmor erutum lapisioinis
aliave id genus, quae sapientor jure consultus
Romanus in usufructu esse negavit, cum non
alidi
tatis