Robert Chambers
1802–71
Publisher, writer, and geologist. Partner, with his brother William Chambers (ODNB), in the Edinburgh publishing company W. & R. Chambers. Joint editor of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal from 1832. Anonymous author of Vestiges of the natural history of creation (1844).
Sources
DSB
ODNB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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