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Ephraim Chambers: Quick Facts

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Born c.1680 • Kendal • England
Died May 15, 1740 • London • England
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Roger Bacon
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English philosopher and educational reformer
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British essayist and physician
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Sir Christopher Wren, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Christopher Wren
English architect
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British mathematician and philosopher
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British scientist
John Herschel
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English astronomer
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British physicist
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British cosmologist and astrophysicist
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English physicist
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British biologist
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British mathematician
The discoverer of the principle of the aplanatic focus
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British opticist
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British physiologist
Brook Taylor, detail of a gouache miniature by Joseph Goupy; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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