PALMISTRY The significance of certain line markings on five thumbs. The Latin heading translates, Concerning the Mounts of the Fingers, or Roots, and of the fingers linked with these. First, dealing with the thumb and its Mount, w hich the ancients were inclined to call that of Venus. From the Opus Mathematicus of Taisnier, 1562.

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