Museum of Natural History Oxford · The Medicine Chest

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Museum of Natural History Oxford

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Mathematics and Applied Mathematics See all items with this value

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Description

On a sunny afternoon, July 4th 1862, an Oxford don took out four friends, for a rowing expedition up the Thames. The don was the Oxford mathematician, photographer and storyteller, Charles Dodgeson (better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll) and his friends were the Rev. Robinson Duckworth and three children – Alice Liddell, aged 10, and her sisters. During the afternoon Dodgeson spun out a series of fantastic yarns incorporating friends and familiar places in Oxford, mathematical riddles, literary allusions and countless references to natural history.

Curriculum

Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air See all items with this value

The Memory of Water See all items with this value

Date Created

2017

Source

Museum of Natural History Oxford

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Natural History Museum See all items with this value

Oxford See all items with this value

Tabloid See all items with this value

Alice in Wonderland See all items with this value

flamingo See all items with this value

Lewis Carroll See all items with this value

taxidermy See all items with this value

fairytales See all items with this value

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shrinking See all items with this value

rabbit See all items with this value

exploration See all items with this value

mathematics See all items with this value

Alice Liddell See all items with this value

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fiction See all items with this value

narrative See all items with this value

stories See all items with this value

children See all items with this value

photograph See all items with this value

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friendship See all items with this value

boat See all items with this value

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids See all items with this value

Lilliputians See all items with this value

research trip See all items with this value

medicine chest See all items with this value

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Type

Photo

Contributor

Nina Liebenberg

Item sets

Curricula

Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air

The Memory of Water

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