The document discusses various codices by Leonardo da Vinci, highlighting their significance in scientific writings and inventions, including designs for a parachute and other machines. Notably, the Codex Leicester holds the record for the highest sale price of any book, purchased by Bill Gates for over $30 million. Additionally, the document mentions the importance of the Madrid Codices and Codex Atlanticus as key sources of Leonardo's notes and engineering treatises.

1. Leonardo da Vinci
“Leonardo da Vinci was like a man who
awoke too early in the darkness, while the
others were all still asleep"
Sigmund Freud

3. Working from Leonardo’s codices*** , Italian artisans have faithfully created interactive
and life-size machine inventions. These works include the first concepts of a car, bicycle,
helicopter, glider, parachute, scuba, submarine, military tank and ideal city to name a few.

4. *** The Codex Leicester (also briefly known as Codex Hammer) is a
collection of largely scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci. The codex is
named after Thomas Coke, later created Earl of Leicester, who purchased
it in 1719. Of Leonardo's 30 scientific journals, the Codex may be the most
famous of all.
The manuscript holds the record for the sale price of any book, when it was
sold to Bill Gates at Christie's auction house on 11 November 1994 in New
York for $US30,802,500.
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***A codex is a bound book made up of separate pages. It developed in late Roman times and replaced the scroll as the preferred
way of keeping texts

5. ***The Madrid Codices I–II are two manuscripts by
Leonardo da Vinci which are of great importance as they
contain about 15% of Leonardo's notes referenced today,
but are also important for the quality and relevance of the
works they contain, which are among the major engineering
treatises of their time. Topics discussed include mechanics,
statics, geometry and construction of fortifications.
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6. *** The Codex Atlanticus (Atlantic Codex) is a twelve-
volume, bound set of drawings and writings by Leonardo da
Vinci
The folios in the Codex Atlanticus deal with various subjects
ranging from mechanics to hydraulics, from studies and
sketches for paintings to mathematics and astronomy, from
philosophical meditations to fables, all the way to curious
inventions such as parachutes, war machineries and hydraulic
pumps.
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7. .
***Codex Arundel, (British Library, Arundel, 263) is
a bound collection of pages of notes written by
Leonardo da Vinci and dating mostly from between
1480 and 1518. The codex contains a number of
treatises on a variety of subjects, including mechanics
and geometry. The name of the codex came from the
Earl of Arundel, who acquired it in Spain in the 1630s.
It forms part of the British Library Arundel
Manuscripts.
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16. Parachute was sketched by Leonardo da Vinci
in his Codex Atlanticus in about 1485.
Leonardo's parachute design consists of sealed
linen cloth held open by a pyramid of wooden
poles, about seven metres long

19. The ideal city

35. lifebuoy
hand flippers
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36. Leonardo da Vinci, in the Codex
Atlanticus manuscripts, sketched
designs for floats to allow a man to walk
on water

42. Photos : £iviu
Music :Vivaldi Concerto for Mandolin in D( Lute RV 93 ) 3. Movement
March 20, 2014
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