Quotes:Chambers, Ephraim

Zirkoff, Boris

Chambers, Ephraim. English encyclopaedist, b. ca. 1860 at Kendal, Westmorland; d. May 15, 1740. Apprenticed to globe maker in London. Wrote for the Literary Magazine, 1735-36. Trans. The Philosophical History and Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, 1742. The first edition of his *Cyclopaedia; or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, appeared by subscription, 1728, in 2 vols., dedicated to the King (2nd ed. Lond., 1738; 5th ed. London: D. Midwinter, 1741-43). The Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert owed its inception to French trans, of Chambers’ work.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 5, p. 371