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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 45r, page id 00067941:0085
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# Lines: 63 recognised, mean confidence 0.84
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amons
beahtam
depnu
venn.)
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lanovit
novus
trame
nua
mas
tas.
tantum, sed et gonus piscis et veram
magnitudinem et commensurationes par-
tium et squamas et caetera omnia
Statim fatebere. Accedit magnum
argumentum ab ipsa constitutione loci
Nam venam ardosii pisciferi pendentem
esse diximus, ut cum nostris fossorbus
loquar; id est in strati prope horiton
talis modum procurrontem por aliquot
mitiana, ut iam facile appareat,
ejusdem stagni pisces a superincum
bente mole pressos. Certe in vicino
Islobiae agro insignes lacres nunc quoy
extant. et quominus marinos in petra
pisces mirere non prvoul abest scebur:
gum, ubi ingens aquae salsae stagnum.
et sub terra esse concitoria satis fon
tes aquarum sabarum docentiex qui-
bus illustris imprimis est quem Hala
Saxonum octavo ab Irlebia lapide
quem
fundit, nescio an Catlis olim et Her.
munduris matena bellansi t quidam putura
Hinc jam intelligas duplicom ut ila
dicam apuel nos terram; unam cum
pisces in suo lacu essent, alteram
postquam obrutis imposita est ingons
materia mollis moles, qua tandem sive
aut
igne, sive gorgonio vaptore ve salibus,
Sipso
sive temporoem diversa lapisis scissilis
strata secessit. Cui impositae rupes du
rissima atque his domum argilla super