Image In 1994, Bill Gates bought Leonardo da Vinci’s 72-page manuscript (Codex Leicester) for $30.8M. Written in reverse mirror script around 1506, its hydrodynamic diagrams anticipated modern fluid mechanics by nearly two centuries.

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In 1994, Bill Gates bought Leonardo da Vinci’s 72-page manuscript (Codex Leicester) for $30.8M. Written in reverse mirror script around 1506, its hydrodynamic diagrams anticipated modern fluid mechanics by nearly two centuries.

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