It is widely believed that Lewis Carroll (who was also an Oxford mathematician) was inspired by Savery's image of the dodo hanging at Oxford to include the creature as a character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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Hans Savery is best known for his 1651 depiction of the dodo now held by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
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