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Nine Conditions of Palm Lines
Nine small diagrams compare spots, sister lines, forked endings and tangled endings. Further examples show rising and falling branches, chained lines, wavy lines, breaks and fine parallel lines. The page presents a visual key to the variations discussed in the manual’s palm-reading chapters.
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Illustrator not identified. "Nine Conditions of Palm Lines" [editorial title]. In A Manual of Cheirosophy, Edward Heron-Allen. 1885 Ward, Lock first edition; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh copy, Internet Archive b21931938, 1885, Ward, Lock and Co.. Source scan leaf 206. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0292-0206
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A diagram from the author’s historical symbolic system, reproduced as a source document rather than a scientifically validated account.
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Illustrator not identified. Nine Conditions of Palm Lines. A Manual of Cheirosophy. Scan leaf 206. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0292-0206