Leonardo Lives: The Codex Leicester and Leonardo Da Vinci's Legacy of Art and Science
Like other notebooks by Leonardo, the manuscript now known as the Codex Leicester was a working record of observations, experiments, and arguments. In it he rendered observations of natural phenomena... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0295976888
ISBN13:9780295976884
Release Date:January 1998
Publisher:University of Washington Press and Seattle Ar
Length:69 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 7.2" x 11.0"
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festooned with drawings that amplify the texts.
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The Codex Leicester is the only Leonardo manuscript owned in the United States and the only one in the world still in private hands. Since Microsoft chairman Bill Gates purchased it in 1994 for $30.8 million, it has been exhibited in Venice, Milan, Rome,Paris and New York.
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