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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal was a weekly 16-page magazine started by William Chambers in 1832. [1] The first edition was dated 4 February 1832, [ 2 ] and priced at one penny . Topics included history, religion, language, and science.
In 1824, Robert wrote, and the brothers published, Traditions of Edinburgh. Education was always the main priority for William and Robert. [1] In 1832, they published The Chambers Journal, a weekly newspaper containing articles on subjects such as history, religion, language and science, many of which were written by Robert himself. It was an ...
Engraving of William Chambers c. 1845 Memorial to William Chambers, Peebles Cemetery 47 Broughton Street, Edinburgh – formerly William Chambers' bookshop John Rhind's statue of William Chambers on Chambers St, Edinburgh. William Chambers of Glenormiston FRSE (/ ˈ tʃ eɪ m b ər z /; 16 April 1800 [1] – 20 May 1883) was a Scottish ...
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal. 3. Orr and Smith: 64. also similar work, with an extended account of the meeting with Napoleon: "A Lancashire-Man and Napoleon". The Casket, Flowers of Literature, Wit and Sentiment. Sam C. Atkinson: 515– 517. 1829. Robert Chambers; William Chambers (1840). "The Cockerills". Chambers's Edinburgh Journal. 8. W ...
Robert Chambers FRSE (March 1832 – 23 March 1888) was a Scottish publisher, editor of Chambers' Journal, amateur golfer and encyclopaedist, the son of Robert Chambers, the co-founder of the W & R Chambers publishing house in Edinburgh.
Charles Knight created it for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in response to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which started two months earlier. Sold for only a penny and illustrated with wood-engravings, it was an expensive enterprise that could only be supported by very large circulation.
Robert Chambers FRSE FGS (/ ˈ tʃ eɪ m b ər z /; 10 July 1802 – 17 March 1871) [2] was a Scottish publisher, geologist, evolutionary thinker, author and journal editor who, like his elder brother and business partner William Chambers, was highly influential in mid-19th-century scientific and political circles.
In 1819, with Sir David Brewster (1781–1868), Jameson started the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal [14] and became its sole editor in 1824. He died at his home, 21 Royal Circus in Edinburgh, [15] on 19 April 1854 after two years of illness, and was interred at Warriston Cemetery. [16]