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Palmistry  wiki

• aka  chiromancy,
  • practice of predicting a person?s future
  • by reading their palms
  • still widely-practiced
  • ? historical origins but likely from the  East.

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The psychonomy of the hand : or, The hand an index of mental development according to Mm. d’Arpentigny and Desbarrolles by Beamish, Richard, 1798?1873
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• Aristotle, was Alexander?the Great’s tutor in the 4^th century BC,
  • • showed him a book on pseudoscience
    • dedicated to Hermes
    • Apparrently it contained palmistry and
    • Alexander would examinr the palms of his officers
    • to determine if they would bring him good fortune

Chironomia wiki

•  art of using  hand gestures
• in traditional rhetoric or oratory.
• developed and systematized by the Greeks and the Romans. Various gestures had conventionalized meanings which were commonly understood, either within certain class or professional groups, or broadly among dramatic and oratorical audiences.

 

See also

• Digit ratio
• Guidonian hand
• Phrenology
• Reflexology
• Single transverse palmar crease
• Tarot