Authority Cited: Chambers
Author name and dates: Ephraim Chambers (1680-1740)
BKG Bio-tweet: Apprenticed to a globe-maker; author of first English encyclopedia of Arts and Sciences; “Heard of by many, Known to few”
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 190 Chambers cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, only 3 Chambers cites identified in vol. 2. No additional Chambers cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Of the 190 Chambers cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 176 are under letters "A" through "C." Although the 170 cites are less than 1% of the cites under the first three letters, the subsequent absence of Chambers cites may indicate a qualitative shift away from the "encyclopedic" dimension of the Dictionary. Item #487 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library is Chambers's Dictionary 2v., 1741. The sample of approximately 80 headwords below is taken principally from the letter "A." Some definitions are cited as "Chambers. Hill."]
Author name and dates: Ephraim Chambers (1680-1740)
BKG Bio-tweet: Apprenticed to a globe-maker; author of first English encyclopedia of Arts and Sciences; “Heard of by many, Known to few”
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 190 Chambers cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, only 3 Chambers cites identified in vol. 2. No additional Chambers cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Of the 190 Chambers cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 176 are under letters "A" through "C." Although the 170 cites are less than 1% of the cites under the first three letters, the subsequent absence of Chambers cites may indicate a qualitative shift away from the "encyclopedic" dimension of the Dictionary. Item #487 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library is Chambers's Dictionary 2v., 1741. The sample of approximately 80 headwords below is taken principally from the letter "A." Some definitions are cited as "Chambers. Hill."]
- Cyclopædia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences; ... By E. Chambers, F.R.S. The fourth edition, corrected and amended; with some additions. In two volumes. ... 1741, London: printed for D. Midwinter, J. Senex, R. Gosling, W. Innys, C. Rivington [and 12 others]. (1st ed. was 1728); abased; abb; affiliation; agio; air; airpump; algebra; alkekengi; alkermes; allocation; alkamantar's staff; almond-furnace; alternate ratio (headword and quote not in 1773 Dict.); alum; amber (2); ambergris; amber seed; amethyst; ammoniac; amomum; amplitude; amputation; ancony; anemoscope; anise (quote not in 1773 Dict.); anker; annulet; antilogarithm; antimony; antiscii; antoeci; apagogical; apocrustick; apogaeon/apogee/apogeum; apophyge; apotome; applicate; apportionment; apsis; aqua fortis; aqua regia; aqua-vitae; arachoides; arachnoides; architecture; arcuation; argument; arithmetick (quote not in 1773 Dict.); armed (attrib. to Chalmers in 1773 Dict.); armenian; armings; arrack; arsenick [BKG Note: attributed to Woodward in the Abstracted Dict. Thanks to Alexander Bocast for detecting this.]; artificial; asafoetida; asbestos; ascensional; aspalathus; asphaltum; assentio (quote w/o attrib. in 1773 Dict.); .assizer/assiser; astrolabe; .. crystal (1 of 3 quotes not in 1773 Dict.); ... mummy; quicksilver; steel. [BKG Note: most of the citations for this title are only to Chambers or Chamb. See also Chambers cites under Dict.)]
- Chambers (no work cited);