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Chambers's Encyclopaedia was founded in 1859 [1] by William and Robert Chambers of Edinburgh and became one of the most important English language encyclopaedias of the 19th and 20th centuries, developing a reputation for accuracy and scholarliness that was reflected in other works produced by the Chambers publishing company.
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.
The Chambers Dictionary was first published by William and Robert Chambers as Chambers's English Dictionary in 1872. It was an expanded version of Chambers's Etymological Dictionary of 1867, compiled by James Donald. A second edition came out in 1898, and was followed in 1901 by a new compact edition called Chambers's Twentieth Century ...
Ephraim Chambers Cyclopædia (1728) Table of Trigonometry, 1728 Cyclopædia. 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, and there was a Supplement in 1753. [2]
A more commercially successful encyclopaedia then Penny Cyclopaedia aimed at the same audiences was Chambers's Encyclopaedia A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, edited by Andrew Findlanter. It was partly based on a translation into English of the 10th edition of the German-language Konversations-Lexikon, which would become the ...
In 1891 a statue of Chambers, by local sculptor John Rhind [15] was placed in the centre of Chambers Street. This has low-relief copper panels on the base by William Shirreffs . [ 16 ] The statue was relocated in 2020 as part of a relandscaping exercise on Chambers Street, increasing paved area outside the National Museum of Scotland .
The imperial encyclopaedia, or, Dictionary of the sciences and arts : comprehending also the whole circle of miscellaneous literature by Thomas Exley and William Moore Johnson (1812) Pantologia (1813) Encyclopedia mancuniensis (1815) (Link contains Vol. 2) Modern Encyclopaedia edited by Amyas Deane Burrowes (1816) Encyclopædia Metropolitana (1817)
The design and wording that appeared at the start of each volume of the first edition of Chambers's Encyclopaedia. Andrew Findlater (17 December 1810 [1] – 1 January 1885) was a Scottish editor notable for his work on Chambers's Encyclopaedia.