A New Edition of Leonardo's Codex Leicester for Bill Gates

Trinity College, Martin Kemp - Bill Gates Funded

Principal Investigator / Director: Martin Kemp

Oxford participants: Martin Kemp

Other Participants: not specified

Project Webpage: https://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/not%20available%20yet

Start Date: 2010

End Date: not specified

Funder: Bill Gates

Partner organizations (inside or outside Oxford): not specified

 

 

Project Description:

Following the CDRom that we undertook for Bill Gates in 1997 on his Leonardo da Vinci Codex Leicester, I am now working with Domenico Laurenza on a new edition (transcription, translation, commentary, paraphrase and analytical essays for the internet. The basic scholarly work (transcription, translation, commentary and paraphrase) is complete as of Sept 2014, and we are talking to OUP about an e-edition. It is intended to link this with online techniques for reading Leonardo's MSS, and various ways of making his ideas publicly accessible including an innovatory "codescope", animations, videos.... The Codex is the greatest of all Leonardo's scientific manuscripts, and is devoted mainly to the role of water in the "body of the earth",. He expounds radical ideas about the ancient history of the earth and the cataclysmic changes it has undergone.