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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Protogaea | |
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| Preamble | |
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| The first formation of the earth through fire | |
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| Different opinions concerning the creation of the globe | |
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| Sea salt, fires, and cycles of precipitation | |
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| The many changes in our globe after its initial creation | |
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| What was the source of the water that covered the earth? And where did it go? | |
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| Bructerus and the origin of springs | |
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| Deposits of metal in the earth and a description of veins | |
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| The generation of minerals explained through chemistry | |
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| Products common to laboratories and mines | |
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| The generation of precious stones, natural and artificial | |
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| Natural sublimations and the preparation of sal ammoniac | |
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| It is through fire that metals appear in their proper forms | |
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| Some bodies owe their form to the movement of waters | |
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| Some bodies coalesce in the waters | |
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| Kinds of tuff stone formed by dripping water | |
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| Some things arise from the combined action of heat and water | |
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| Where do the shapes of various fish imprinted on slates come from? | |
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| Earthquakes, volcanoes, and other things show that there is fire inside our globe | |
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| The forms of fish imprinted on slate come from real fish, and are not games of nature | |
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| The different layers of the earth, their locations, and the origin of salts and salt waters | |
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| The origin of mountains and hills explained through waters, winds, and earthquakes | |
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| Marine shells are found throughout our region and elsewhere | |
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| The various kinds of shells were not created inside the stone, as is evident from their forms and positions | |
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| The shells and bones of excavated marine animals can be identified as the parts of real animals | |
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| In ancient times, nearby seas contained animals and shellfish that are no longer found there | |
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| Glossopetrae, asterias, trochites, etc., are the remains of marine animals, and not games of nature | |
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| But it is wrong to include the polygonal shapes that can be found in crystals among these | |
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| In which a certain lazy ingenuity, which invents things alien to truth, is rejected | |
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| Where can the L�neburg glossopetrae be found? | |
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| Glossopetrae are sharks’ teeth | |
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| The medical use of glossopetrae | |
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| Belemnites, osteocolla, shell-filled stones, and fossil ivory | |
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| Bones, jaws, skulls, and teeth found in our region | |
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| The unicorn’s horn, and an enormous animal unearthed in Quedlinburg | |
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| Sharzfeld Cave and the bones that have been found in it | |
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| The Baumann Cave and its contents | |
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| On the nature of amber, especially the kind found in our region | |
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| Changes wrought by rivers and the vestiges of upheavals in our region | |
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| The struggle between sea and land | |
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| Sea and marsh once covered Venice and Este | |
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| The marvelous fountains of Modena | |
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| How Modena’s fountains are produced | |
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| The layers of earth in Rosdorf, near G�ttingen | |
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| On buried trees and petrified wood | |
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| Peat and its origin | |
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| On trees buried underground | |
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| The various layers of earth observed in Amsterdam | |
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| Appendix: Text from Friedrich Lachmund’s | |
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| Oryktographia(1669) | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |