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Radcliffe Camera
Part of the University of Oxford Library.
The Radcliffe Camera (often abbreviated to "the Rad Cam" in Oxford), is a building in Oxford, England, designed by James Gibbs in the English Baroque style and built in 1737–1749 to house the Radcliffe Science Library. The building was funded by a £40,000 bequest from John Radcliffe, who died in 1714. Nicholas Hawksmoor proposed making the building round.
The Camera - which means chamber, room, or round building - is a main reading room of the Bodleian Library. Around 600,000 books are also stored in rooms beneath Radcliffe Square. To preserve the safety of the books the public are not allowed inside the building.
Radcliffe Camera
Part of the University of Oxford Library.
The Radcliffe Camera (often abbreviated to "the Rad Cam" in Oxford), is a building in Oxford, England, designed by James Gibbs in the English Baroque style and built in 1737–1749 to house the Radcliffe Science Library. The building was funded by a £40,000 bequest from John Radcliffe, who died in 1714. Nicholas Hawksmoor proposed making the building round.
The Camera - which means chamber, room, or round building - is a main reading room of the Bodleian Library. Around 600,000 books are also stored in rooms beneath Radcliffe Square. To preserve the safety of the books the public are not allowed inside the building.