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Werner's Nomenclature of Colours

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Werner's Nomenclature of Colours

By Patrick Syme

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About the book

First published in 1814, Werner's Nomenclature of Colours is a taxonomic guide to colour which been cherished by naturalists and anthropologists for over two centuries.In the late 1790's Abraham Gottlob Werner devised his own standardised colour scheme, which allowed the writer to describe even the subtlest of chromatic differences with consistent terminology. His scheme was then adapted by an Edinburgh flower painter, Patrick Syme, who traced the actual minerals described by Werner, and used th...Show more

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ISBN

9780565094454

Publisher

The Natural History Museum

Published year

2018

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Edition

1

Original title

Werner's Nomenclature of Colours

Format

Hardcover

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