A diary date for visitors to New York this autumn: 26 October sees the
opening of an exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History of the Codex
Leicester, one of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous scientific notebooks, which covers
fossils and floods, astronomy and hydrodynamics. Owned by Bill Gates, it stays
on public view until the New Year.
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