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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. The encyclopaedia ...
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]
British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1809) Encyclopædia Edinensis (1816) Pantologia (1813) Encyclopædia Metropolitana (1822–1845) Penny Cyclopaedia (1833–1846) English Cyclopaedia (1854–1862, supp. 1869–1873) Chambers's Encyclopaedia (1860; no relation to Chambers's Cyclopaedia of the 18th century)
Chambers was founded as W. & R. Chambers Publishers by the two brothers William Chambers of Glenormiston and Robert Chambers. They were born into a rich, mill-owning family in Peebles in Scotland in 1800 and 1802 respectively, during the time of the war with France. The war impoverished the family and, in 1813, the family left Peebles for ...
In 1859 Chambers founded a museum and art gallery in Peebles. The brothers collaborated on the publication of Chambers Encyclopaedia between 1860 and 1868. The Chambers Dictionary in 1872 was one of the first generally affordable dictionaries, allowing its use as a standard school text book.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia; Chambers's Information for the People; The Complete Compendium of Universal Knowledge; Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature; The Cyclopedia of New Zealand