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See also:EPHRAIM See also:CHAMBERS (d. 1740)
, See also:English encyclopaedist, was See also:born at See also:Kendal, See also:Westmorland, in the latter See also:part of the 17th See also:century
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He was apprenticed to a globe-maker in See also:London, but having conceived the See also:plan of his Cyclopaedia, or Universal See also:Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, he devoted himself entirely to it
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The first edition appeared by subscription in 1728, in two vols. fol., and dedicated to the See also: |
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