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.
- Aristotle, was Alexander’the Great’s tutor in the 4th century BC,
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- 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
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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.
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