4/6/2023 0 Comments Fame and obscurity![]() The Residents are a band of mystery at a time when mystery is in short supply. And curiosity over the members’ identities is still running strong - ironically at a time when most entertainers are doing everything they can to promote themselves on Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr. Yet the band’s uncompromising art and its anonymity go hand in hand. These are hardly hallmarks of longevity in the popular music world. Their stage shows, multimedia projects and films are wildly surreal efforts that often viciously deconstruct and mock Western music, society, politics and pop culture. Their music can be unstructured and abrasive. The Residents are better known to most of the world for donning huge eyeballs and other weird masks and costumes than for any particular album or song. The importance of the mystique cannot be overstated. Once you find out what the trick is, the mystique is gone.” “Why give away the secrets? It’s the same as a magician’s trick. p. 820.“They steadfastly stand behind the curtain and are determined to stay there until the day they die,” says band spokesman Homer Flynn, who works for the Residents’ management group, Cryptic Corporation, and in fact has been rumored to be an actual band member. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Ephraim Chambers." The Gentleman's Magazine v. "Ephraim Chambers’ Cyclopaedia." In: Notable Encyclopedias of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Nine Predecessors of the Encyclopédie. ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 820, lines six and seven ".and translated the History and Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris (1742)".George Lewis Scott in Chalmer's Biography, Volume 27. George Lewis Scott in Chalmer's Biography, Volume 9. Heversham: The Story of a Westmorland School and Village. "A Solution to the Multitude of Books: Ephraim Chambers's "Cyclopaedia" (1728) as "The Best Book in the Universe" ". 103, Hafner, New York & London, 1966.) cited in University of Wisconsin ^ Robert Lewis Collison reminds us that Chambers attained the distinction of "father of the modern encyclopaedia throughout the world." ( Encyclopaedias: Their History Throughout the Ages, 2nd ed., p.Legacy Ĭhambers' epitaph, written by himself, was published in both the original Latin and in English in the Gentleman's Magazine, volume 10, as follows (translation is the original): He also worked with John Martyn to translate the History and Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris (1742). Chambers worked on translating other works in French on perspective and chemistry from 1726 to 1727, including the Practice of Perspective from the French of Jean Dubreuil. ![]() He also wrote for, and possibly edited, the Literary Magazine (1735–1736), which mainly published book reviews. When he died in 1740, he left materials for a Supplement edited by George Lewis Scott, this was published in 1753. ![]() The first edition of the Cyclopaedia appeared by subscription in 1728 and was dedicated to George II, King of Great Britain. Chambers died in Canonbury House in Islington and was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey. He also took lodging in Gray's Inn, where he remained for the rest of his life. After beginning the Cyclopaedia, he left Senex's service and devoted himself entirely to the encyclopedia project. It was here that he developed the plan of the Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Then was apprenticed to a globe maker, John Senex, in London from 1714 to 1721. Little is known of his early life but he attended Heversham Grammar School, Biography Ĭhambers was born in Milton near Kendal, Westmorland, England. ![]() Chambers' Cyclopædia is known as the original source material for the French Encyclopédie that started off as a translation of Cyclopædia. 1680 – ) was an English writer and encyclopaedist, who is primarily known for producing the Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Title page of Chambers' 1728 Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and SciencesĮphraim Chambers ( c. ![]()
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