Nature’s Palette: A Color Reference System from the Natural World

Book Description

A gorgeous expanded edition of Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours, a landmark reference book on color and its origins in nature

First published in 1814, Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours is a taxonomically organized guide to color in the natural world. Compiled by German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner, the book was expanded and enhanced in 1821 by Patrick Syme, who added color swatches and further color descriptions, bringing the total number of classified hues to 110. The resulting resource has been invaluable not only to artists and designers but also to zoologists, botanists, mineralogists, anatomists, and explorers, including Charles Darwin on the famous voyage of the Beagle.

Nature’s Palette makes this remarkable volume available to today’s readers, and is now fully enhanced with new illustrations of all the animals, plants, and minerals Werner referenced alongside each color swatch. Readers can see “tile red” in a piece of porcelain jasper, the breast of a cock bullfinch, or a Shrubby Pimpernel. They can admire “Berlin blue” on a piece of sapphire, the Hepatica flower, or the wing feathers of a jay. Interspersed throughout the book are lavish feature pages displaying cases of taxidermy, eggs, shells, feathers, minerals, and butterflies, with individual specimens cross-referenced to the core catalog.

Featuring contributions by leading natural history experts along with more than 1,000 color illustrations and eight gatefolds, Nature’s Palette is the ideal illustrated reference volume for visual artists, naturalists, and anyone who is captivated by color.

中文：

书名：自然的调色板：来自自然世界的颜色参照系

华丽的扩充版。沃纳的颜色命名法，一本关于颜色及其在自然界中的起源的里程碑式的参考书

1814年首次出版，沃纳的颜色命名法这是一本分类组织的自然界颜色指南。这本书由德国地质学家亚伯拉罕·戈特洛布·沃纳编写，1821年帕特里克·赛姆对该书进行了扩充和增强，他增加了颜色样本和进一步的颜色描述，使分类色调的总数达到110种。由此产生的资源不仅对艺术家和设计师来说是无价的，而且对动物学家、植物学家、矿物学家、解剖学家和探险家来说也是无价的，包括查尔斯·达尔文在著名的海洋之旅中。小猎犬.

Nature’s Palette它使这本非凡的卷提供给今天的读者，现在完全增强了所有的动物，植物和矿物沃纳参考每一个色样的新插图。读者可以在一件瓷器碧玉、一只公鸡的乳房或灌木状的紫罗兰上看到红色瓷砖。他们可以在一块蓝宝石上欣赏柏林蓝，在海葵花上欣赏，或者在一只松鸦的翅膀上欣赏。这本书散布着丰富的专题页面，展示标本、鸡蛋、贝壳、羽毛、矿物和蝴蝶的案例，个别标本与核心目录交叉引用。

以领先的自然历史专家的贡献为特色，以及1000多幅彩色插图和8幅门折，Nature’s Palette它是视觉艺术家、博物学家和任何被颜色迷住的人理想的插图参考书。