Radcliffe Camera
Circular domed library of the eighteenth century, now a working reading room of the Bodleian.
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This guide to the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford follows John Radcliffe, the most famous and least tactful physician of Queen Anne's England, through the summer of seventeen fourteen, when a summons from the royal council arrived at an inconvenient moment. Along the way you'll meet King William the Third and his swollen ankles, and a doctor who was proud of how little he read. Best heard on the cobbles of Radcliffe Square, with the dome on one side and the church of Saint Mary the Virgin on the other.
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