Excerpt from The Language of the Hand: Being a Concise Exposition of the Principles and Practice of the Art of Reading the Hand, by Which the Past, the Present, and the Future May Be Explained and Foretold Artemidorus, in the second century, wrote of Chiro mancy, and we have many later authors, such as Cocles in I 504, De la Chambre 1653, with other Italian and French writers, as well as Germans, down to the lady who produced the Grand Jeu de Societe in Paris. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.