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A rare da Vinci codex on birdflight goes on display at the National Air and Space Museum
Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex on the Flight of Birds, compiled by the artist between 1505 and 1506, has been seen by the public in this century only rarely. After a brief exhibit at Moscow’s ...
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Why Leonardo da Vinci’s brilliance endures, 500 years after his death
Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered. Leonardo’s notebooks are starting to make their way to the greater public too. Galluzzi is spearheading an elegant searchable database of the Codex Atlanticus ...
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Look inside the rare Leonardo da Vinci notebook that Bill Gates paid more than $30 million for
In 1994, he purchased Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex Leicester," a manuscript that dates back to the 16th century. He paid $30.8 million for the journal at auction, a price that made it the most ...
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The weirdest book in the world just turned 40. We talked to its creator.
Related stories It was Ricci who came up with the idea of calling the work a Codex, something that summoned a connection to Leonardo da Vinci's legendary Codex Atlanticus. Serafini liked the idea ...
How do bird nests stay together? Researchers unravel entanglement between stiff, straight rods
The concept of constructing a self-supporting structure made of rods—without the use of nails, ropes, or glue—dates back to ...
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Language of Genius: A Leonardo da Vinci Glossary
A singular genius of infinite curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci left behind masterpieces ... these writings were later collected into the Codex on the Flight of Birds, now housed in the Royal Library ...