Salvator Mundi, which depicts Jesus Christ holding a crystal orb, sold in 1958 for just £45. Leonardo is also responsible for the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. Leonardo also thought the moon was covered in water, but hey, for just $30 million, not every idea is going to be a winner.
He realized, centuries before other scientists, that creatures had once burrowed their way through a soft sea bottom that had, over time, become rocky mountain top material. In its place, he suggested a more gradual process like the type that occurs over years of sedimentary rock formation, and even laid out an incipient understanding of what we’d eventually call trace fossils. The ultimate renaissance man’s wandering mind takes him to some fascinating places in the diary: Looking to explain the presence of maritime fossils on hilltops, he broke from contemporary explanations that either misidentified them as something entirely inorganic or tried to account for their location through a one-time event like the biblical deluge. The book was written in Leonardo’s signature mirror-writing style, and it provides a glimpse into his unique way of thinking. The codex, which owes its name to onetime owner Thomas Coke, the Earl of Leicester, was sold to Bill Gates in 1994 for over $30 million. The most expensive manuscript ever sold at auction, adjusting for inflation, was The Codex Leicester, one of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks full of scientific musings and sketches.
Detail Showing Action and Reaction Demonstrated on a Seesaw from Codex Leicester by Leonardo da Vinci.
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