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Ephraim Chambers (* um 1680 in Kendal; † 15. Mai 1740 in Islington (heute London)) war ein englischer Schriftsteller der Frühaufklärung. Er war der Herausgeber und größtenteils auch Verfasser eines der ersten enzyklopädischen Wörterbücher der Künste und Wissenschaften im Zeitalter der Aufklärung.
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] Biography.
11. Mai 2024 · May 15, 1740, London. Ephraim Chambers (born c. 1680, Kendal, Westmorland, Eng.—died May 15, 1740, London) 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 ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
12. Nov. 2011 · Cyclopaedia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences published by Ephraim Chambers in 1728 Volume 1.
Die Cyclopaedia ist eine Enzyklopädie von Ephraim Chambers. Er veröffentlichte 1728 in London die zweibändige Cyclopædia, or, An universal dictionary of arts and sciences: containing the definitions of the terms, and accounts of the things signify’d thereby, in the several arts, both liberal and mechanical, and the several ...
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] . The Cyclopædia was one of the first general encyclopedias to be produced in English. Noteworthy features.
Ephraim Chambers, self-composed epitaph. 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 ...
