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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 43r, page id 00067941:0081
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# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 39, 2026-08-27T09:55:26Z — 68 lines, status machine
# Lines: 68 recognised, mean confidence 0.92
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genam
em
rat
irto
gonca
neris,
liquan:
ad
hthyo-
nquam
nii spe:
re spe.
mam
harter
nim
les
3 extra
nostrus
st, de
posse
Sprimo
abit
non
alidi
ita
leat.
onve:
cd mi-
nrecte
ifestoouum
rem constantioremq causam suspectemus
 ludentem
quam aut easum ladentem aut semina
quas ideas.
les nescio s mania philos ophorum
vocabula. Qvidergo si lacum
ingontem cum piscibus suis vel terrae motu
vel aquarum vi, vel alia magna cuuta
dicamus obrutum terris; qua seinole
in lapidem duratae impressi piscis vesti-
massa
gra et velut ectypos molli ante materia
impressos, et postremo e consumtis du
dum animalis retiquis metallica mate:
valde
ria oppletos servarunt. Nec jam dis.
puto, quae causa ex terra ardesium lapi:
dom fecerit, adduxeritus metallum in cari:
tates. Fieri potest ut quomadmodum in
fornacibus ex argilla coctilos lasides hu-
mana arte formantur, ita maymis na:
turae ignis pro variis terrarum generbus
atque misturis nunc ardosium, nunc alabatu
tem coxerit, aliusvi petrae gonus; metat
tica inberim materia, quae toto limo dispet
sa erat, vi caloris exvelante, et in cavi-
tates illas sese colligonte, quas relique.
Hujus enim
rat piscis. aus volatilis materia du
dum tempore aut caloro consumta faci:
se locum fecit. Habemus aliquis
simile in aurifabrorum artificiis. liben–
ter enim ocrulta naturae manifestis
hominum operibus confero. Arancum
aut atitus animal materia apta obuunt
exiguo
aditu tamen reticho; matenam igne eoquunt
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