Not surprisingly, one of the first comprehensive books, "Von den äußerlichen Kennzeichen der Foßilien" ("From the External Characteristics of Fossils"), published in 1785, was developed by a German ...

Published in 1814 by the painter Patrick Syme based on the work of geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner, Werner’s is a working dictionary of colors found in the natural world, complete with swatches ...

Abraham Gottlob Werner, a German minerologist, had developed a standardized color scheme in the late 18th century to identify various shades in his geological specimens with precise and consistent ...

Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours, an 1814 color guide, is still relevant today.

German mineralogist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817), who published one of the first manuals for the identification of minerals, adopted the name as the crystals of this mineral display a ...

"The World in a Crucible" probes the inception of geology as an experimental science in order to understand early, opposed, and sometimes paradoxical perceptions about rock origin. This new volume ...