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BL and Bill team up on da Vinci codex.
Byline: mark chillingworth
BL and Bill team up on da Vinci codexa[bar]
Mark Chillingworth
Two notebooks that document the thoughts of Leonardo da Vinci's scientific investigations have been made available online following a landmark collaboration between the British Library (BL) and Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates.
The Codex Leicester, owned by Gates, the world's richest man, and the Codex Arundel, a BL treasure, have been reunited on the web some 500 years after Leonardo drafted them as part of the library's Turning the Pages digital books service.
"I am amazed by da Vinci," said Gates. "He personally worked out how light worked. Every one of those notebooks is an amazing document."
The Codex Arundel and Codex Leicester were dispersed in the 16th century. The notebooks contain da Vinci's notes, diagrams and sketches of his studies of mechanics, optics and the moon.
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- Magazine article from: Esquire Baumgold, Julie January 1, 1997 700+ words
...scientist I know who can sell his book on Comedy Central and still keep his cool. We were going to see Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester. (A codex is an unbound manuscript.) Recently, the codex, which Bill Gates bought for around $31 million...
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- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Hackett, Regina September 10, 1997 700+ words
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- Corbis Announces "Leonardo da Vinci" CD-ROM.
- Press release article from: Business Wire October 25, 1996 700+ words
...title, "Leonardo da Vinci," will be available...Inspired by the Codex Leicester, which was created...the "Leonardo da Vinci" CD-ROM focuses...Starting with Leonardo da Vinci's seldom-seen...and journal, the Codex Leicester, the CD-ROM...
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Source: HighBeam Research, BL and Bill team up on da Vinci codex.