Book description
Bulwerās Chirologiaā¦ Chironomia is an extremely rare work. Only thirty-one copies have been located, and they are of dubious legibility of the printed text.
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This first modern editionāthe first in three centuriesāis based on the first printing as sold by Richard Whitaker in 1644. Spelling and punctuation have beenā¦
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This 1644 book is one of the most charmingly mad documents in the history of rhetoric.
Bulwer thought (rightly) that rhetoric wasnāt just about words: body-language matters, too. So he attempted to catalogue the meaning of hand gestures, which he believed were a universal language, and to explain how best they might be used in oratory.
You discover, if you read Bulwer, that weāve been blowing kisses and flipping the bird since the seventeenth century; and that clapping your hands as you talk is āa gesture too plebeian and theatrically light for the hands of any prudent rhetoricianā. Better yet,ā¦
From Sam's list on rhetoric and the art of persuasion.
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