The world's most expensive book......
We all about know the world's most expensive car, bike, house, watch, etc. Can you imagine that book is also exist ? In our daily life we are not think about the book. Because, we are so busy in our day to day and social media life.
You are so eager to know about, Which book is that ? Why it so expensive ? Who is the owner of that book ? What is the content in that book ? I will give all answers of your wh-questions.
So Let's Explore....
- "The Codex Leicester"
- It was written by Leonardo Da Vinci
- This book is sold to Bill Gates on 11 Nov 1994
- At that time, it was sold US $30,802,500 now this price is equivalent to $53,222,898.79 as of 2019
Observations:-
It's a manuscript book. The Book is combination of Leonardo's theories and observations on astronomy. The topics like properties of rocks, fossils, air, water and celestial light are included.
- The brightness of moon.
- The clarification of why fossils are found on mountains.
- The movement of water. this is the main topic of this book. It's about the flow of water in river and how it is distressed by various difficulties put in it's way.
- The Codex included 18 sheets of paper. Each paper folded in half manner. It written on both sides and it's form totally 72 pages record.
Owners :-
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1) Giovanni Della Porta
2) Giuseppe Ghezzi => Till 1719
3) Thomas Coke => 1719-1759
4) Leicester Estate => 1759-1980
5) Armmand Hammer => 1980-1990
6) Bill Gates => 1994-Present
After Armmand Hammer, it is the estate of Armmand Hammer till 1990-1994
Renaming :-
In the auction of Leicester estate this book is purchased by Armmand Hammer. After that this is renamed as Codex Hammer.
So, This is all Information of world's most expensive book that is Codex Leicester(Codex Hammer)
