Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
William Chambers
Hardcover
(William & Robert Chambers, March 15, 1851)
Robert Chambers (10 July 1802 ? 17 March 1871) was a Scottish author, journal editor and publisher who, like his elder brother William Chambers of Glenormiston the publisher and politician, was highly influential in the mid-19th century in both scientific and political circles. He was the anonymous author of the Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, which was so controversial in that religion-dominated era that his authorship was not acknowledged until after his death.