Knowing Hands: The Hand as a Merkhilfe and Oracle

The Hand as a Merkhilfe and Oracle: For centuries, China has had a tradition of using the hand to memorize information, solve practical problems and predict things. As part of the project "Knowing Hands", the medical historian Prof. Dr. Marta Hanson at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is now investigating unexplored historical and... Source