Biography
Leonardo
Wissenschaftler, Kunster, Leonardo da Vinci, Erfinder, Michael Desmond, Carlo Pedretti
1946·140 pages
Exhibition companion reproducing Leonardo’s Codex Leicester pages, with commentary on his scientific notes from fossils to astronomy.
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Exhibition companion reproducing Leonardo’s Codex Leicester pages, with commentary on his scientific notes from fossils to astronomy.
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Bill Gates bought the Codex Leicester a notebook of Leonardo da Vinci's scientific observations and theories in 1994 from the estate of Armand Hammer for $30.8 million. Last year Gates loaned the work to Australia's Powerhouse Museum, which prepared this companion to its exhibition. No longer in codex form (the pages were bound in the 1600s, but Gates had the binding dismantled for digital reproduction), the manuscript ranges over topics from fossils to astronomy. Each recto of this edition repr...
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