Protogaea[1] is a work by Gottfried Leibniz on geology and natural history. Unpublished in his lifetime, but made known by Johann Georg von Eckhart in 1719,[2] it was conceived as a preface to his incomplete history of the House of Brunswick.[3]
- ^ Full title in German: Protogaea oder Abhandlung von der ersten Gestalt der Erde und den Spuren der Historie in Denkmalen der Natur (Protogaea or Treatise on the First Form of the Earth and the Trail of History in Monuments of Nature).
- ^ J. G. Eckhart, "Beschreibung desjenigen, was bey Grabung des Herrenhäuser‐Canals am Lein‐Strome her Curiöses in der Erde gefunden worden", Neue Zeitungen von Gelehrten Sachen auf das Jahr 1719, Nr. 24, 185–192, see Cornelius Steckner: Lügenstein und Weltarchäologie.
- ^ Nicholas Jolley (1995). The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz. Cambridge University Press. pp. 31–3. ISBN 978-0-521-36769-1. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
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