(Farbe; Geologie) SYME, Patrick. 
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Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, with additions, arranged so as to render it highly useful to the arts and sciences, particularly zoology, botany, chemistry, mineralogy, and morbid anatomy. Annexed to which are examples selected from well-known objects in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms. Second edition. Edinburgh: Printed for William Blackwood, 1821. 8vo. (198 x 123 mm), [4], 5-47 pp., [1, blank] with half-title, 13 plates containing a total of 110 mounted colour samples, scattered toning and spotting, japan paper repair to right top corner of title page, William Whyte & Co. Edinburgh bookseller label to front pastedown, untrimmed, original brown boards with printed title label to upper cover, rebacked, lightly soiled, outer corners bumped and worn.
A very rare work & a most important book in the literature of nomenclature and colour standards written by Scottish painter and botanical illustrator Patrick Syme RSA (1774 - 1845), first published by James Ballantyne and Co. in 1814. A copy of this compact colour manual was among Darwin’s ‘most useful’ possessions on the Beagle. Syme based his book on the colour system compiled by the mineralogist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749 - 1817) in the late eighteenth-century. Werner’s aim was to produce a reference book for artists, scientists, naturalists, and anthropologists detailing where each colour could be found on minerals in nature. Three decades after its first conception, Syme added hand-crafted colour swatches and examples from the animal and plant kingdoms. The result was a unique compendium of colour that showcased the beauty of nature across the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms. Each colour square was painstakingly hand-coloured by an Edinburgh engraver, although some say by the artist and his family, with Syme ensuring the quality control of each colour swatch, from volume to volume. Only 100 copies were produced for each issue. Charles Darwin famously used a copy of the book as an indispensable tool during his seminal voyage on the HMS Beagle. He used its terms to record observations of everything from clouds to animal and mineral samples.- Dixon, Joyce. Capturing colour on HMS Beagle: Charles Darwin and Werner’s Nomenclature of colours (1821) in: The British Journal for the History of Science March 2026, pp. 17 - 40. (Geologie, Color theory, Farbtheorie, Darwin, Mineralogie, Minerale, Bergbau )
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Sachgebiete: Geologie, Mineralogie, Naturwissenschaften, Zoologie
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