This was a precursor to later encyclopedic works, such as that of Ephraim Chambers.

He also was in touch with John Colson, and associated with Ephraim Chambers.

According to Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, this was the only permitted burial ground for Jews.

The first recorded use of sky blue as a color name in English was in 1728 in the Cyclopædia of Ephraim Chambers.

In 1745, le Breton set out to publish a translation of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia of 1728.

May 15 - Ephraim Chambers, encyclopaedist (born c.1680)

In 1727 Ephraim Chambers wrote in his Cyclopædia, "The world is ordinarily divided into two grand continents: the old and the new."

In 1728 he was listed as one of the subscribers to the Cyclopaedia of Ephraim Chambers.

Sky blue is the name of a colour, first recorded in English in the 1728 Cyclopædia of Ephraim Chambers.

A page from a 1728 text by Ephraim Chambers (in the figure to the right) shows more machine elements.