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 ...

[Image: courtesy Nicholas Rougeux] 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 ...

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 ...

The name for this aluminium-rich silicate mineral derives from the Greek word kuanos or kyanos meaning deep blue. German mineralogist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817), who published one of the ...

The 1814 color guide, inspired by German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner and written by Scottish artist Patrick Syme, was a taxonomy of the colors found in the natural world.