# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/805153551:0202 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/805153551:0202?run=74 # Title: [De Re Metallica, Hoc Est, De Origine, Varietate, & Natura Corporum Metallicorum, Lapidum, Gemmarum, atque aliarum, quae ex fodinis eruuntur, rerum, ad Medicinae usum deseruientium, Libri III. Autore Christophoro Encelio Salueldensi] De Re Metallica, Hoc Est, De Origine, Varietate, & Natura Corporum Metallicorum, Lapidum, Gemmarum, atq[ue] aliarum, quæ ex fodinis eruuntur, rerum, ad Medicinæ usum deseruientium, Libri III. Autore Christophoro Encelio Salueldensi. (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 57) # Folio 180, page id 805153551:0202 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=805153551&page=202 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/805153551/jpgs/default/00000202.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 30 lines, status machine # Lines: 30 recognised, mean confidence 0.93 # Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. # Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text. # Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote". # After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line. Sclapidibus X gemmis teuide um cap. 55. Veteres Astroloo ada mantem dicarunt lunae. DE G AG ATF. Caput Z 1. Aeates lapis, es non gagites, dicendu est. Tnam faeitis est aetites; secundum Plinium libro 10. Cap. 3. Gagates vero lapis, de quo hic agi- mus, a Germanis dicitur ein gasathstein, 8aget - sein agetstein, bornstem bernstem. Fit inmari et Rumine gagas, procul dubio, ex petroleo, id est. naphtha subtili, vel liquido bitumine naturali: s- cuti altera gasatis species lapis Thracius schwari bornstein, oder aagetstein, fit ex niera naphta aut bituminc. cum stillat vel fluit in mare, vel Rumina propemaria, bitume vel naphtha liquida, Petro- lium illud, ut in capite naphthae moxdicemus, fit dico gagatas. Germani aulem gagates lapides o- mnino cum sucino seu electromiscent, cumtamen materia unde srant dissentiant, lic et ognatio que dam sit es adtinitas in his, in attrahendis paleis. nam es succinum es gagas calefactus motu attra- hitfila et stipulas, ut maenes ferru, ut sagda lignu. Deinde etiam uterq; iene accensus., Raerat, sed suc- cinum non ardet aquis, licei oleo quodammodo ar deat, propter resinae unde fit debilitatem. Cragates vero, quia exbitumine fiant, eo magis in aqua ar dent, ex aqua acceduntur propterum bituminis. Sicute 180