CHAMBERS, EPHRAIM (d. 1740), English encyclopae dist, was born at Kendal, Westmorland, and apprenticed to a globe-maker in London. The first edition of his Universal Dic tionary of Arts and Sciences appeared by subscription in 1728, in two vols., fol., dedicated to the king. The Encyclopedie of Diderot and d'Alembert owed its inception to a French translation of Chambers's work. In addition to the Cyclopaedia, Chambers wrote for the Literary Magazine and translated the History and Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris (1742), and the Practice of Perspective from the French of Jean Dubreuil. He died on May 15, 1740.