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Microsoft President and Co-Founder Bill Gates has revealed that one of his greatest sources of inspiration is a Leonardo da Vinci manuscript that he bought for $ 30.8 million in 1994.
"Da Vinci had an understanding of science that was far more advanced than anyone else's at that time," said Gates. For the co-founder of Microsoft, the work represents the constant search for knowledge.
Developed by the Italian Renaissance genius in the early 16th century, the work acquired by Gates is known as the Codex Leicester, has 72 pages and holds observations, drawings and diagrams on various subjects, including the properties of water, air, rocks and The manuscript is considered to be the most valuable in the world and before being purchased by Gates spent more than two centuries in the hands of the descendants of the earl of Leicester, Thomas Coke.
