Ephraim Chambers (c. 1680 – 15 May 1740) was an English writer and encyclopaedist, who is primarily known for producing the Cyclopaedia, or an Universal...
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Dictionary of Arts and Sciences is a British encyclopedia prepared by Ephraim Chambers and first published in 1728; six more editions appeared between 1728...
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the Savoy. 1721. p 27 Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Ed, 1910, p 44. Ephraim Chambers. "Advocatione". Cyclopaedia. Fifth Edition. 1741. Volume 1. Finlason...
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bacteriologist Ephraim Wales Bull (1806-1895), creator of the Concord grape Ephraim Willard Burr (1809–1894), American politician Ephraim Chambers (1680–1740)...
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Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use (as "Androides") to Ephraim Chambers' 1728 Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus...
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originally conceived as a French translation of Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia (1728). Ephraim Chambers had first published his Cyclopaedia, or an Universal...
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or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 1728, edited by Ephraim Chambers Rees's Cyclopædia, 1802–20, edited by Abraham Rees Penny Cyclopaedia...
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Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1728), by Ephraim Chambers: "Thus, a Proposition would be absurd, that should affirm, that two...
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Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica named it as the Boramez. In Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopædia, Agnus scythicus was described as a kind of zoophyte, said...
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the World, as the whole Continent of Europe, Asia, Africa." In 1727, Ephraim Chambers wrote in his Cyclopædia, "The world is ordinarily divided into two...
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