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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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quid genem
quodu
emanibus
debetur
u
nurta
inchorum
genus ere
itis natu–
agnam
palia tan-
 savis
i Chri-
mniana
Achate
1cCs3e
marmori
nostri
mâ ante
rato, ab
5 Alexan
in
aurum
em gra
ssim celebram
a auts
vone-
esa
 et 
siinitia,
signa
tum
oppono, qui nuxer libello eoito asserrravit
multa tatia ostentata sibi sed quanto at
longius
tontius aspiceres eo minus in similitudi
contra
ne abfuisse; cum in veris exvviis quo
scrutabere
seris diligentius, eomanifestiora
originis argumenta suppeditentur; totiesque
deceptum se magnitiois narrantium ver–
bis non facile amplius fidem habere.
In nostro monte S. Ancreae fodina sam
samis nomine quae nunc quoque coltur cruc
finum cum sxinea corna ex puro argen-
to elaboratum exhibuisio fortur etalio
praebui,
gento hominem cncularium habitu fos–
soris portantem alveum metallo plonum
haec
longitusine eligiti, sed racta imaginati
onis judicia sunt non oculrum. (hiristianis
et fossoribus facile occurrit animo, quon
cotidio colunt aut vidont. plerumue eti
am ars asjuvat naturam ne loudae nar
rationis argumentum pereat. Adimitur
aliquid ubi adclinon potest, et subtili–
us artificium cirrumfaranei habent, quo
Mandragoram ruonic adicsimus
ita ppraeformare exradico scimus
ipsa
at croscendo 5ese in hominis sp eciemab
solvat. Caeteroqui rudias
a
supple
to
fa casres fornaljersdifiri mutit a
olent superstitiosae mulierculae certo anni die orum
ponctare in cyathum vitreum aqua plenum; exoncruti
Se
bas ovum certo ann d vana olivinandi.