Ebenezer Cobham Brewer: 3 books

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally...

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (10 May 1810 in Norwich[1] – 6 March 1897 in Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire), was the compiler ofBrewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and The Reader's Handbook, Victorian reference works.

Of all science, none is more generally interesting than that which explains the common phenomena of life. We see that salt and snow are both white, a rose red, leaves green, and the violet a deep purple; but how few persons ever ask the reason why! We know that a flute produces a musical sound, and...