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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 42v, page id 00067941:0080
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# Lines: 39 recognised, mean confidence 0.91
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lasidis xarietes utrinque claudunt venam.
ibi in manibus
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Habui ipse mugilem, percam, alburnum
petrae insculptos paulo ante erutus erat
ingens lucius, flexo corpore; ore aperto
quasi sie desrehensus vitus gorgonia
vi obriguisset, viri et malihi generis,
ut raja, halex et lampetra, et hac atiquan:
do haloce decussata. Hic plenque ad
hesus naturae confugiunt; quin et ichthyo-
morphi nostri lapidis exemplo usi, tanquam
inelubitato oblertantis se rerum geniispe.
etiam
cimine, et caetera controversa firmare spe:
magnam
rant, in quibus crchitectatrcem munnam
dem parjocum dontes, atque ossa animatium, conihstia, ser
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pentesque imitatam volunt, quoties enim
eo argumente premuntur, quodes
rudes tantum adembrationes rei animalis extra
ammal nasci consentaneum sit, ad nostrus
lapides provocant, ubi fatendum est de:
lineationi nihil perfectionis adjici posse
Nam plorumue genus piscis agnoscas, primo
obtutu, neque unquam a Symmetria abit
animal, aut magnitudinem habet non
ut
suam Sed vereor, ne atnimis validi
ictus in autorom reper
similitusdipis argument 
iimia probatia in contrarium valeat.
Santa pircium simulatorum cum veris conve:
nientia est; piunis ipsis squamisque ad mi
nutias usque expressis; tanta imagimum
visitur,
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frequontia in eodem loco, ut manifestiorem