PALMISTRY - CHIROGNOMY The study of the form of the hand, in its relation to personality, is called Chirognomy, and is an important division of Palmistry. Among the many attempts to classify hand types, is that proposed by the French palmist, Casimir Stanislas D'Arpentigny (born 1798). D'Arpentigny proposed six basic hand types, along with a seventh, which included elements from two or more of these types. The drawings here illustrate (top left); the Elementary, the Psychic, the Spatulate, and (bottom left); the Knotty (or Philosophic), the Square, and the Conic. From D'Arpentigny, L

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PALMISTRY - CHIROGNOMY The study of the form of the hand, in its relation to personality, is called Chirognomy, and is an important division of Palmistry. Among the many attempts to classify hand types, is that proposed by the French palmist, Casimir Stanislas D'Arpentigny (born 1798). D'Arpentigny proposed six basic hand types, along with a seventh, which included elements from two or more of these types. The drawings here illustrate (top left); the Elementary, the Psychic, the Spatulate, and (bottom left); the Knotty (or Philosophic), the Square, and the Conic. From D'Arpentigny, La Chirognomie, ou l'art de reconna¯tre les tendances de l'intelligence d'aprÞs les Formes du Main, 1843.

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