Werner's Nomenclature of Colours: With Additions, Arranged So as to Render it Highly Useful to the Arts and Sciences. Annexed to which are Examples Selected from Well-known Objects in the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms

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W. Blackwood, 1814 - 43 стор.

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Сторінка 28 - Mountain green is composed of emerald green, with much blue, and a little yellowish grey, or verdigris green, with yellowish grey. It passes into greenish grey. Examples, beryl and hornstone.
Сторінка 20 - Yellowish grey is ash grey mixed with lemon yellow and a minute trace of brown. It passes into yellowish brown and ochre yellow. Examples, calcedony and mica. g. Ash grey is the characteristic colour. Example, quartz.
Сторінка 18 - Examples, amiajith, foliated limestone, and amythest. g. Milk white is snow white mixed with a little Berlin blue and ash grey.
Сторінка 18 - White, is snow white with a very small portion of tile red and king's yellow, and a minute portion of ash grey.
Сторінка 29 - Werner's, added since the publication of his nomenclature ; it is composed of emerald green with a little indigo blue, much gamboge yellow, and a very little carmine red.
Сторінка 24 - Berlin blue, with white, a small quantity of grey, and a hardly perceptible portion of red.
Сторінка 1 - ... long wanted in arts and sciences. It is singular, that a thing so obviously useful, and in the description of objects of natural history and the arts, where coA lour is an object indispensably necessary, should have been so long overlooked.
Сторінка 17 - Purplish White, is snow white with the slightest tinge of crimson red and Berlin blue, and a very minute portion of ash grey.
Сторінка 26 - Pansy Purple, is indigo blue with carmine red, and a slight tinge of raven black.

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