The Future of the Commons by Elinor Ostrom (Paperback Book)

Name: The Future of the Commons by Elinor Ostrom (Paperback Book)
Brand: Institute of Economic Affairs

Institute of Economic Affairs

Storename eBay Template\nFree UK \nDelivery\nFree \nReturns\nCustomer Satisfaction \nGuaranteed\nTop Customer \nFeedbackWerner's Nomenclature of Colours: Adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Minerology, Anatomy and the ArtsProduct Description'This is a fascinating historic document that grabs the attention much more than you would expect.' --The Artist From the Back Cover In the late 1790's Abraham Gottlob Werner devised his own standardised colour scheme, which allowed the writer to describe even the subtlest of chromatic differences with consistent terminology. His scheme was then adapted by an Edinburgh flower painter, Patrick Syme, who traced the actual minerals described by Werner, and used them to create the colour charts found in the book. In the pre-photographic age, almost all visual details had to be captured using the written word, and scientific observers could not afford any ambiguity in their descriptions. These included Charles Darwin, for whom Werner's Nomenclature .