biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1680–1740)
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| biography:
| Encyclopedist, born in Kendal, Cumbria, NW England, UK. While apprenticed to a globemaker in London he conceived the idea of a Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (2 folio vols, 1728). A French translation inspired Diderot's Encyclopédie. |
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