Radcliffe Camera

The Radcliffe Camera (Camera, meaning "room" in Italian) (colloquially, "Rad Cam"; "Radder" in 1930s slang) is a building in Oxford, England, designed by James Gibbs in the English Palladian style and built in 1737–1749 to house the Radcliffe Science Library.

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