Leonardo Lives: The Codex Leicester and Leonardo Da Vinci's Legacy of Art and Science

by Trevor J. Fairbrother and Chiyo Ishikawa

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: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.2" x 11.0"

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festooned with drawings that amplify the texts.

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.