# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/805153551:0207 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/805153551:0207?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 185, page id 805153551:0207 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=805153551&page=207 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/805153551/jpgs/default/00000207.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 30 lines, status machine # Lines: 30 recognised, mean confidence 0.94 # 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. Liber TIT. noster uuleart aagetstein. secundo, niser albisue- nulis. tertio niger venis croceis, is communis in Creta. quarto, varius in india quasi sanouine a- Persus. quinto, niger similis coorallo. DS BAPIDE PHRACIO. Caput ZI1. Apis Thracias, vel Thracius, vel Threicius a Nicandro dictus, nascitur in Rlumine Scy thia, cui Pontonomen est. Vim habet caeatis, ac- cenditur aqua, es oleorestinguitur. Sicuti accidit inbitumine. Fstq; ille labis nihil aliud quam al tera illa species gagatis, niera, schwarts er aaget- stein. bernstein, borustein: fitq; ex niera naphtha, autbitumine liquidoniero: sicuti flauus eagates expetroleo, id est, naphthaliquida candida, cum Stillat vel Ruitinmare. Induratur in lapidemve- rocalore tum proprio, tum aquae. cuius secies propriè sunt Uthanthraces, die steintrolen, lapidei illi carbones, leves, vel etiam eraues. Deinde etiam lapis ille fisilis, der schyffer. Ouod uero lapis thra cias fiat ex bitumine, testatur odor, ex substantia bituminosa, olorq; niger, quod es sit lapis squa lidus, crustosus, leuis, ut etiam lapis hic describitur a Dioscoride. Ouomodo vero differat ab ipso succino, in precedenti capite dictum est. In sum- malabis Thracias, es gagates, sunt lapides unius reneris, ex una cademq materia, latum differente M + alore