# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/805153551:0248 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/805153551:0248?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 226, page id 805153551:0248 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=805153551&page=248 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/805153551/jpgs/default/00000248.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 29 lines, status machine # Lines: 29 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. Delapidib. X gemmis DE LAPIDE SPONGTARVM. Caput ZLI. Vera in fine libri secundi docuimus de spon- DSI5. tertiam esse sponorrum speciem, quae in Se concineat lapides quasi natiuos, qui minus calidi secudum Auicenna, quam ipsae sint sponorae, quos Plinius libro tricesimo sexto, capite decimonono, cysteolithos vocat. Hi lapides vino poti, vesicae cal culos teste Dioscoride, veletiamrenurumpere ad Trmant. DE OSTRACITE, Caput ZLII. Stracites ab ostreis nomen inuenit, cum ta- mensit similistestae, crustosus, es fisilis in laminas. Plinius libro tricesimosexto, capite deci- monono, unam eius speciem, id quod es Dioscori- des facit, similem dicutestae, cuiususus sit pro pu mice. Porro libro tricesimo septimo, capite decimo ostraciam sive ostraciten testacea hac priorispecie duriorem dicit, es illinomen es similitudinem o- Htream dedisse. Alteram ejus speciem similem esse achatae docet, nisi quod achates politura pinsie- Scat duriori. Sic ostracitidis sunt tres quasi diver- sespecies: una quaetestae, altera quae ostrea, tertia quae achatae similitudinem habet. Prima, quae testae similis est, reperitur, habens scisiles venas, natu- raliter incensis montibusin Sexonid. Altera quo qHe