15 May 1740(1740-05-15) (aged 59–60) Islington, England
Occupation
Encyclopaedist, publisher
Genre
Non-fiction
Title page of Chambers' 1728 Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
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] Chambers' Cyclopædia is known as the original source material for the French Encyclopédie that started off as a translation of Cyclopædia.[2]
^Robert Lewis Collison reminds us that Chambers attained the distinction of "father of the modern encyclopaedia throughout the world." (Encyclopaedias: Their History Throughout the Ages, 2nd ed., p. 103, Hafner, New York & London, 1966.) cited in University of Wisconsin
^Yeo, Richard (2003). "A Solution to the Multitude of Books: Ephraim Chambers's "Cyclopaedia" (1728) as "The Best Book in the Universe"". Journal of the History of Ideas. 64 (1): 63. doi:10.2307/3654296. ISSN 0022-5037. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
EphraimChambers (c. 1680 – 15 May 1740) was an English writer and encyclopaedist, who is primarily known for producing the Cyclopaedia, or an Universal...
Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica named it as the Boramez. In EphraimChambers' Cyclopædia, Agnus scythicus was described as a kind of zoophyte, said...
or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 1728, edited by EphraimChambers Rees's Cyclopædia, 1802–20, edited by Abraham Rees Penny Cyclopaedia...
the World, as the whole Continent of Europe, Asia, Africa." In 1727, EphraimChambers wrote in his Cyclopædia, "The world is ordinarily divided into two...
Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Vol. I. EphraimChambers. 1728. p. 105. Retrieved 3 May 2013. page 23, paragraph 20: "At one...
the "Table of Hydraulics and Hydrostatics", from Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, edited by EphraimChambers, 1728, Vol. 1...
characteristic element of deism, a view further codified by such authorities as EphraimChambers and Samuel Johnson. .. "DEISM," writes Stephens bluntly, "is a denial...
dictionary of arts and sciences Archived 2008-12-02 at the Wayback Machine, EphraimChambers, London: Printed for J. and J. Knapton [and 18 others], 1728, vol....
1986 Cyclopædia, or, An universal dictionary of arts and sciences, EphraimChambers, 2 volumes, with the 1753 supplement, 2 volumes; digitized by the University...
urea is as "the essential salt of the human body" in: Peter Shaw and EphraimChambers, A New Method of Chemistry …, vol 2, (London, England: J. Osborn and...
Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (folio, 2 vols.), an encyclopedia by EphraimChambers. The Cyclopaedia was one of the first general encyclopedias to be produced...
color name in English was in 1728 in the Cyclopædia of EphraimChambers. Prior to the Chambers reference, the color had first been used in 1585 in a book...
encyclopedia written in English. Harris's work inspired EphraimChambers's Cyclopedia (1728). Chambers's two-volume work is considered the first modern encyclopedia...
Gazette, a reference to Keimer's intention to print out a page of EphraimChambers' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences in each...
"αἰθάλίον", A Greek–English Lexicon (8th ed.), Harper & Brothers, p. 34b EphraimChambers, ed. (1728), "Aludel", Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts...
from the original on 2020-02-16. Retrieved 2015-05-08. EphraimChambers (1728). Cyclopedia (Chambers) - Volume 1. pp. 74, 146. Phillips III, C. Robert (1996)...
not far away, off Aldersgate, still existed in 1722. According to EphraimChambers' Cyclopaedia, this was the only permitted burial ground for Jews. Also...
remained the man who "painted horrors in the Escorial" in the words of EphraimChambers' Cyclopaedia in 1899. In 1908, Spanish art historian Manuel Bartolomé...
Canonbury Tower, 1616–1626 William Babell, musician, died here in 1723 EphraimChambers, encyclopaedist, lodged at Canonbury Tower George Grossmith and Weedon...
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