''Werner's Nomenclature of Colours'' is a book of named colour samples compiled by

Abraham Gottlob Werner Abraham Gottlob Werner (; 25 September 174930 June 1817) was a German geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the structure, composition, and History of Earth, history of Earth. Geologists incorporate techniques from physics, chem ...

, and subsequently amended by

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. The book, first published in 1814, was used by

Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English Natural history#Before 1900, naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all speci ...

in his scientific observations. Werner's ''Nomenclature'' can be viewed as a predecessor of modern named colour systems such as

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. The colours are illustrated and described, and examples shown of their use in ornithological plates in
The Anatomy of Colour
' by

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(1821) Color 1814 non-fiction books Books about color {{science-book-stub