Leonardo Da Vinci is diligent in recording and has written tens of thousands of manuscripts. Now, there are more than 5000 pages of manuscripts left. In his numerous manuscripts which havent been settled, Leonardo Da Vinci is just like a boy who has been stimulated by the mysterious desires but got nothing at last. These manuscripts, which are rarely dated, have been dispersed into many places via twists and turns. In fact, many people have accustomed to defining the manuscripts of Da Vinci as ambiguous scrips. It not only includes the unsent letters, different sheets, reading notes with different languages, mechanical engineering drawings etc. but also presents the trace of different research fields in the same papers. An article that in relation to optics may be next to a sketch of human face, or a preparation method in relation to special pigments or a thesis in relation to the pharmaceutical formulations. In view of herein, the Manuscript of Hamer, which is written in Milan with 72 pages, is extremely rare. The manuscripts include many interpretative words and drafts of manuscript on hydraulics, astronomy, architecture, rocks and fossils. In 1994, the Manuscript of Hamer is purchased at the price of USD 30.8 million by Bill Gates, the president of Microsoft. Michael White, the biographer, asked him the reason why he would like to buy the book. Because I need it. Bill Gates said with wry smile. Then he said that the Manuscript of Hamer should be owned by the world. The behavior of Gates is considered as a crazy scientist, who has suffered mild autism, pays his respect to the giant of science through purchasing behavior, who was born 500 years ago and firstly reflected the running mechanism of human and the world.
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