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EPHRAIM CHAMBERS (d. 1740)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 820 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EPHRAIM CHAMBERS (d. 1740)  ,
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English encyclopaedist, was born at Kendal, Westmorland, in the latter
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part of the 17th century . He was apprenticed to a globe-maker in
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London, but having conceived the plan of his Cyclopaedia, or Universal
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Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, he devoted himself entirely to it . The first edition appeared by subscription in 1728, in two vols. fol., and dedicated to the king (see
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ENCYCLOPAEDIA) . The Encyclopedie of Diderot and d'Alembert owed its inception to a French
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translation of Chambers's
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work . In addition to the Cyclopaedia, Chambers wrote for the
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Literary
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Magazine (1735-1736), and translated the
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History and
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Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris (1742), and the Practice of Perspective from the French of
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Jean Dubreuil . He died on the 15th of May 1740 .

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