APPENDIX. 



LEIBNITZ'S PROTOG^A. 



JjrJLY learned correspondent, Fr, Adr. Vanderkemp a 

 of Oldenbamerald, New-York, has favoured me with a 

 communication too important to be withheld from the 

 public eye. 



c< I send you enclosed the outlines of Leibnitz's Pro- 

 togaea, published in 1749, with a Preliminary Disserta* 

 tion of C. L. Scheidius. Gottingen. 1749. Inserted in 

 Leibnitz's Works, the splendid edition of Lud. Dutens, 

 in vi. vols. 4to. Geneva. 1768. By de Tournes, torn* 

 ii. pag. 181. The Preliminary Dissertation of Scheidius 

 is continued till page 199; the Protogaea from page 199 

 241. 



1. Introitus. 



2. Globus terras regulari primum forma fuit, et ex li* 



quido indtiruit, motrix caussa lux sive ignis. 

 3. Distinctior de globi terrei creatione sententia, et de 



basi illius. 

 4. Origo aquae .marinas et fluviaticas; lapidum item et 



diversorum terrae stratorum. 

 $ 5. Plurimas globi nostri mutationes post primam crea- 



tionem ex variis caussis. 





