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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Physica LH 37, 3
# Folio 18r, page id 00068532:0035
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Luic meditationi inquisitio in regionum intra Hercynios
montes et Oceanum sitarum indolenulu
globum terrae multo majores passum mutationes quam quisquam facile
materia
suspicetur. Et primumcejus partem manimam igne flaguasse conjicit
in illo praesertia Motaico generali lucis et tenebrarum divontio
Et sic interpretandum, quod quidam putant opaca corpora seu planefas
(quorum ix numero hanc terram esse verisinillimum habent) ex finis
seu lacidis factos maculis scilicet velut crusta pott deflagnationem
obduetos. Crustam autem esse vitrificationis genus, hinc et basis
possea
terrae vitrum, cujus pragmina arensae, undesdemum admistione salium
atque vaporum
et circulatione arut, varra genen terrarume dorro ver
deinde
sintnata  humorem.
ignium numorem in aera enpulsum refrigerata austa rursus se
collegisse, eo fere modo, quo calcinata humiditatem attrahunt
et inde natum lixivu vel (Chyniea voce) Olei per deliquium genus
quod empyreume er superficiet terre abluens criginen dederit maris
itaq
mecuuvine. Motes primun lucis et tenebrarum id est
activi principusa caeleris magis patientibus elementis separationem
potuit: deinde ipta pediva corpora grada nesistentiae diversa fluida
edane emas aquam a terra sejunxit. berro mare
resuntor nunc detectae partem
texise et aliquardo in alii montibus fuisse donec crusta illa telluris
passim cava suo aquarumque porde
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tantes et terra notu confracta
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exquo inde inclinata inter montes srata ruinarum oplera conchilus alusque
spolui maris esluentis, cum limo mox indurato) deprehendis
Mare
autem arbitratur cum ante 
u in summos montes ascendis et mox
rupto
perlapertom niabus in interiora abyssi penet nasse, atque ita magnam
duperficie terrce partem rursus siccam destituisse. Aliqua autem non tantum
uxiventali dilavio, sed et magnis quibusdam inundationibus privatis
esse attribuenda, danec aequilibratis denum causis durabitum, rerun facoet