How long does it take to read Leonardo Da Vinci?
Leonardo da Vinci, Kunster, Erfinder, Wissenschaftler, Michael Desmond, Carlo Pedretti
Leonardo Da Vinci by Leonardo da Vinci, Kunster, Erfinder, Wissenschaftler, Michael Desmond, Carlo Pedretti takes about 2 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 37 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1946. 143 pages, about 39,325 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 89 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Bill Gates bought the Codex Leicester a notebook of Leonardo da Vinci's scientific observations and theories in 1994 from the estate of Armand Hammer for $30.8 million. Last year Gates loaned the work to Australia's Powerhouse Museum, which prepared this companion to its exhibition. No longer in codex form (the pages were bound in the 1600s, but Gates had the binding dismantled for digital reproduction), the manuscript ranges over topics from fossils to astronomy. Each recto of this edition reproduces one of Leonardo's pages, written in mirror-script Italian with sketches jotted in the margins; a discussion (but not a translation) appears on the verso. It includes an introduction to Leonardo's life, but no index.
Subjects: Exhibitions, Knowledge, Windsor Castle, Biblioteca ambrosiana, Catalogs, Engineering
