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Through the Body: Chiromancy in 17th-Century England

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Through the Body: Chiromancy in 17th-Century England The early modernity inherited the ancient and medieval conviction that normally hidden knowledge about fellow humans could be obtained by an inspection of particular parts of their bodies. It was the hand that was considered especially informative, as it contained lines and other natural marks that were supposed to form a kind of alphabet that could disclose the “Inclinations, the Motions of the Soul, the Vertues and Vices”, and were even capable of revealing the examined person’s future. The present article explores the English boom in chiromancy in the 17th century, which saw new editions of old authorities as well as new treatises by, for instance, Richard Saunders and George Wharton, whose chiromantic texts aimed at elevating palmistry to the status of science that pursued the ancient nosce te ipsum philosophy. The striking feature of chiromancy was its preoccupation with the material and the bodily. Each chiromantic session was in fact a kind of sym- bolic dissection that consisted in identifying, naming and interpreting particular anatomical parts of the hand. Furthermore, palmists had to consider all unique physical attributes of their clients’ hands, whose varied size and shape – together with palm lines’ length, depth, colour, straightness or crookedness – always had to be taken into account. Chiromancy was thus founded on acknowledgment and contemplation of variety and changeability observable in the human bodies, which provided access to knowledge about humanity.
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The article entitled: Astrology, Palmistry and Metoposcopy as a Complement to the Physiognomic Image of the Soul in the Philosophy of Marin Cureau de La Chambre aims to present the views of a little-known French doctor and philosopher in Poland. Living and creating in seventeenth century, de La Chambre is a representative of post-Cartesian philosophy. His studies concern the physiognomic image of the human psyche. The article briefly presents the content of the main works of this author, which include Les Characteres des passions, vols. 1–4, Paris1662 and L'art de connoistre les hommes, Amsterdam 1660. It is in these books that the scholar presents the principles of getting to know people, resulting from the combination of medical knowledge and the analysis of emotions in a person. In the second part, the article presents the content of two letters that de La Chambre attached to L'art de connoistre les hommes. These are: Discours sur les principes de la chiromance (Dissertation on the principles of palmistry) and Discours sur les principes de la metoposcopie (Dissertation on the principles of metoposcopy). The scientist studies the utility of these pseudo-sciences for the purposes of medicine so that, together with physiognomy, they can replenish the necessary knowledge not only about the behavior of people, but about the traits of their character, as well as the fate with reference to the incidence of various diseases. The article presents a less popular and familiar part of the knowledge in the field of the development of post-Cartesian medical philosophy in France in the seventeenth century. 
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Artykuł zatytułowany Astrologia, chiromancja i metoposkopia jako uzupełnienie fizjonomicznego obrazu duszy w filozofii Marin Cureau de La Chambre’a, ma na celu zaprezentowanie poglądów mało znanego w Polsce lekarza i filozofa francuskiego. Żyjący i tworzący w wieku siedemnastym de La Chambre jest przedstawicielem filozofii  pokartezjańskiej. Jego opracowania dotyczą fizjonomicznego obrazu psychiki ludzkiej. Artykuł ukazuje skrótowo treść głównych dzieł tego autora, do których zalicza się Les Characteres des passions, t. 1–4, Paris 1662 oraz L'art de connoistre les hommes, Amsterdam 1660. To w tych książkach uczony prezentuje zasady poznania ludzi, wynikłe z połączenia wiedzy lekarskiej oraz analizy emocji w człowieku. W drugiej części artykuł przybliża treść dwóch utworów o charakterze listów, które de La Chambre dołączył do L'art de connoistre les hommes. Są nimi: Discours sur les principes de la chiromance (Rozprawa o zasadach chiromancji oraz Discours sur les principes de la metoposcopie (Rozprawa o zasadach metoposkopii). Uczony bada przydatność tych pseudo-nauk dla celów medycyny tak, aby wraz z fizjonomiką, mogły zasilić niezbędną wiedzę nie tylko o zachowaniu ludzi, ale o cechach ich charakteru, jak również przeznaczeniu w odniesieniu do zapadalności na różne choroby. Artykuł przedstawia mniej popularną i mniej znaną część wiedzy z zakresu rozwoju pokartezjańskiej filozofii medycznej we Francji wieku siedemnastego.
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