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Ephraim Chambers ( c. 1680 – 15 May 1740) was an English writer and encyclopaedist, who is primarily known for producing the Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. [1]
May 11, 2024 · Ephraim Chambers was a British encyclopaedist whose work formed a basis for the 18th-century French Encyclopaedists. The first edition of his Cyclopaedia; or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences appeared in 1728, and its success led to Chambers’ election to the Royal Society.
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Cyclopædia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences is a British encyclopedia prepared by Ephraim Chambers and first published in 1728; [1] six more editions appeared between 1728 and 1751 with a Supplement in 1753. [2]
Ephraim Chambers was an encyclopaedist and a freethinker, whose 1728 Cyclopaedia broke new ground in inclusiveness and scope. In striving to collect, collate, and classify knowledge, Chambers was distinctly a product of the Enlightenment, but he was driven too by his own love of learning and a sense of being – in his own words – ‘bound to ...
Chambers, Ephraim (1680-1740) While the details of the life of Ephraim Chambers remain sketchy, library records of his literary work provide some important clues. These records* show that Chambers, was the author, publisher, editor, or translator of a number of books and Periodicals or Magazines. One of his earliest works on record (1723) is a ...
One of the first general encyclopedias to be published in English, Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia (2 vols. published in 1728, with 2 supplement vols. in 1753) served as the primary inspiration for Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie which owed its inception to a French translation of Chambers' work begun in 1743 by John Mills and Gottfried ...
Nov 12, 2011 · Cyclopaedia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences published by Ephraim Chambers in 1728 Volume 1.
