A colour guide to nature, Werner's Nomenclature of Colours pairs 110 colour swatches with poetic descriptions of the plants, animals, and minerals each shade was drawn from.“I had been struck by the beautiful colour of the sea when seen through the chinks of a straw hat… according to Werner nomenclature ‘Indigo with a little Azure blue’.”— Charles Darwin, 1832In the eighteenth century, German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner set ou...