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LEONARDO DA VINCI - Codex Hammer (ex Leicester)

Place: Bill Gates Colection, Seattle (WA)

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(Gates Collection, Seattle, WA)

Facsimile (Giunti, Florence 1987); ca. 1506-10; 29x22 cm

This 36-folio manuscript has changed hands twice in the last fifteen years. In 1980, it was purchased at auction by Armand Hammer from the estate of Lord Leicester; in 1994, it was acquired by Bill Gates at the Hammer estate auction. The analysis of movement of the water is a central theme, together with studies of geology (fossils, the circulation of water and natural disasters) and astronomy.

fols. 1v-2r: Sketches and studies of cosmology and of the reflected light (lume riflesso) of the Moon.

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