Friday, September 20, 2013

Most Expensive Book in the World

The Codex Leicester, Leonardo da Vinci — $30.8 million
Most Expensive Books in the World: The Codex Leicester of Leonardo da Vinci:$30.8 million
Da Vinci wasn't only an artist, but also a scientist.The Codex Leicester is one of the most famous scientific journals of da Vinci which consists of 72 pages of handwritten muses and theories that is in relation to everything ranging from water movement to fossils and moon glow. This manuscript is the closest notebook of the writer and thinker Leonardo da Vinci which was first purchased by Thomas Coke in the year of 1717 who was appointed as the Earl of Leicester in1980s. Again later in the year of 1994, this notebook was taken over by Bill Gates at a journal auction for price value of $30,800,000, thus making it one of the most expensive book in the world purchased till date. Gates also had this book scanned and used as the screensaver of the Windows 95 of Microsoft Plus!
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