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Bill and Melinda Gates Bring Leonardo da Vinci�s Codex Leicester to Life
�One of the most amazing people who ever lived�
Nearly 500 years ago, after completing work on the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci wrote what has become known as the Codex Leicester, a folio of scientific observations and illustrations on natural phenomena such as water, light and gravity.
The manuscript contains Leonardo�s prescient and remarkable observations about the world around him, giving insight into the inquisitive, interdisciplinary mind that fueled both his artistic and scientific work. The Codex is notable, too, for the fact that Leonardo wrote it backwards, in Renaissance Italian, often filling pages with ideas and drawings in a non-linear sequence.
Bill Gates purchased the manuscript at auction in 1994 from the oil magnate Armand Hammer, who had renamed the manuscript the Codex Hammer. Gates restored its name to the Codex Leicester, after Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester, whose family owned the manuscript from 1717 until 1980, when Hammer purchased it.
Before bringing the Codex to the United States, Gates allowed the manuscript to be shown in da Vinci�s native Italy, and in France. In the U.S., it was exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and now is on display at the Seattle Art Museum.
�I�ve been fascinated by da Vinci�s work since I was 10,� says Gates. �Leonardo was one of the most amazing people who ever lived. He was a genius in more fields than any scientist of any age, and he was an astonishing painter and sculptor. His notebooks were hundreds of years ahead of their time. They anticipated submarines, helicopters and other modern inventions.
�His scientific �notebooks� are awe inspiring not simply as repositories of his remarkable ideas but as records of a great mind at work. In the pages of the Codex Leicester, he frames important questions, tests concepts, confronts challenges, and strives for answers. His writings demonstrate that creativity drives discovery, and that art and science -- often seen as opposites -- can in fact inform and influence each other.�
From the Billy homepage : www.microsoft.com...
Originally posted by Nans DESMICHELS
Do you think Bill GATES have a special knowledge of the Da-Vinci code ?
Do you think he used this knowledge to become "master of the world" ?
Who sold him the Da-Vinci Leceister codex ? (Actually, I only know that the codex was sold for $30,800,000, but I don't know who was the owner before BG). Bill GATES is the only "private" to own a Da-Vinci codex. The others Codex are all owned by museums in Italy, France and N"YC.
Originally posted by Byrd
Originally posted by Nans DESMICHELS
Do you think Bill GATES have a special knowledge of the Da-Vinci code ?
No, Nans. Or, rather, no more than the rest of us. I read Da Vinci's notebooks when I was fairly young.
Originally posted by racos
Aye I agree with the fact that there isnt probally any money making schemes in de vinci's book., Its probally what it is. A book to which he wrote down his ideas, he thoughts. Nothing more.
Byrd, understand at least that even if you read Da-Vinci note books, you read translations, or transcriptions, but you never hold in your hands an authentic Da-Vinci codex. Don't forget that Da-Vinci used to write all his comments in his codex invereted...this is a proof that he used to hide some knowledge.