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First published in the pre-photographic age, Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours was the preeminent guide to color and its classification for artists, scientists, naturalists, and anthropologists in the 19th-century.
Without an image for reference, the book provided immense handwritten detail describing where each specific shade could be found on an animal, plant, or mineral.
Charles Darwin even used the guide during his voyage to the Madeira, Canary, and Cape Verde islands on the H.M.S. Beagle.
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Here he is opening the last chapter of The Colour of Time.
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(Colorized by me) Marie Curie in her laboratory in Paris, 1912.
100+ years later, her research papers are still radioactive.
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(Colorized by me) Richard M. Nixon and Elvis Presley at the White House, 1970.

According to Time, Presley, a collector of police badges, wanted a badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and to be named a “Federal Agent at Large.”
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