Ephraim Chambers

1680–1740

English writer and encyclopaedist

writer · translator · lexicographer

Born in Kendal

Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as Ephraim Chambers:

• Isaac Newton (1643–1727)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
• Voltaire (1694–1778)
• Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
• Adam Smith (1723–1790)
• Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
• Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778)

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