Ephraïm Chambers
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Ephraïm Chambers , writer English, Encyclopédiste, born with Kendal, Westmorland, in 1680 and deceased in the suburbs of London, with Islington in 1740.
It published in London in 1728, under the title of Cyclopaedia gold Universal Dictionary off Arts and Sciences ( Encyclopédie or Dictionary of arts and sciences ), in 2 vol. in-fol., a work which obtained every success, and which made it admit with the royal Société of London.
Andre-François Breton the, editor in Paris, charged Diderot with translating this work which did not have an equivalent in France. This work, which gave the idea of the French Encyclopédie , had a great number of editions. Diderot and its collaborators will launch out in a project much vaster than this Dictionnaire of the Arts and trades: the Encyclopedia or reasoned Dictionary of sciences, arts and the trades!
One the most estimated of at the 19th century is according to the Dictionary Bouillet that of Abraham Rees, 1788 - 1791, London, 5 vol. in-fol.
The '' Cyclopaedia '' is accessible in line (2 volumes of the edition of 1728 and two volumes of the supplement of 1753), in image mode and text mode, in the Documentation digitized of [[University of Wisconsin] ( University off Wisconsin DIGITAL Collections )].
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