Codex Arundel - Complete Manuscript (Enhanced) Codex Arundel - Complete Manuscript (Enhanced)

Codex Arundel - Complete Manuscript (Enhanced‪)‬

A reproduction of the original manuscript enhanced with audio commentary

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Complete Version

Leonardo da Vinci was possibly the most widely talented person ever to live. Painter of The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, engineer, architect, anatomist, he defined Renaissance Man like no other.


Codex Arundel is a collection of notes made between 1480 and 1518, dealing mainly with mechanics and geometry. Amongst the highlights are studies on the moons reflection of light, the movement of water, observations on the production of sound and light, and designs for diving apparatus. In the notebook we clearly see Leonardo’s mind at work on a dizzying variety of subjects, and we can trace the evolution of ideas through his words and sketches.

The notebook is written in Leonardo’s distinctive “mirror writing” possibly to preserve his secrets, possibly just because he was left-handed. 


The collection of notes were bought by Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel in the 17th century, were bound and became known as Codex Arundel. The codex then passed to the Royal Society before coming to rest around 1831 in the British Museum Library, now known as the British LIbrary.


This eBookTreasures facsimile edition contains a flip function to reverse Leonardo's mirror writing as well as text and audio interpretation on selected pages.

  • GENRE
    History
    RELEASED
    2011
    3 August
    LANGUAGE
    EN
    English
    LENGTH
    567
    Pages
    PUBLISHER
    The British Library
    SIZE
    153.3
    MB

    Customer Reviews

    mattman1971 ,

    Only 2 pages in English?

    This is a con. There only seem to be two pages in English. Where is the commentary? I have found no sound either. Don't get conned

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