Palmistry, the secrets thereof disclosed, or, A familiar, easy and new method whereby to judge of the most general accidents of mans life from the lines of the hand withal its dimensions and significations as also that most useful piece of astrology (long since promised) concerning elections for every particular occasion, now plainly manifested from rational principles of art, not published till now / by Richard Saunders ...
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Palmistry, the secrets thereof disclosed, or, A familiar, easy and new method whereby to judge of the most general accidents of mans life from the lines of the hand withal its dimensions and significations as also that most useful piece of astrology (long since promised) concerning elections for every particular occasion, now plainly manifested from rational principles of art, not published till now / by Richard Saunders ...
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Saunders, Richard, 1613-1675.
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London :: Printed by H.B. for G. Sawbridge ...,
1663.
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Palmistry -- Early works to 1850.
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"Palmistry, the secrets thereof disclosed, or, A familiar, easy and new method whereby to judge of the most general accidents of mans life from the lines of the hand withal its dimensions and significations as also that most useful piece of astrology (long since promised) concerning elections for every particular occasion, now plainly manifested from rational principles of art, not published till now / by Richard Saunders ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62237.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.
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The Names of the Lines and parts of the hand follow in the two next Figures, by their proper Letters, as they offer them∣selves to be understood.
A The line of Life.
B The Sister of the line of life, or line of Mars.
C Rascetta, restricta, carpus, the wrist.
D The natural line, or line of the Head.
E Epatica, or Liver line.
F The line of Saturn.
G The Table line.
H The Table of the hand.
I The Sister of the Liver line, and the via lactea.
K The Mount of Iupiter.
L The Mount of Saturn.
M The Mount of Sun.
N The Mount of Mercury.
O The Mount of The Moon.
P The Mount of Venus.
Q The Mount of Mars.
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R The Solar line or line of the Sun.
S The Girdle of Venus.
T Stethos the forepart of the hand∣wrist.
V Thenar, that part between the Thumb and the forefinger.
X Hypothenar, the Percussion of the hand.
1 The first, second, and third joynts of the Fin∣gers.
2 The first, second, and third joynts of the Fin∣gers.
3 The first, second, and third joynts of the Fin∣gers.
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[illustration] palmistry hand
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[illustration] palmistry hand
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