Palmistry is indirectly referenced in the Book of Job, which is dated by scholars to between the 7th and 4th centuries BCE. The text it is not contained in his canonical works. A chapter of a 17th-century sex manual, misattributed to Aristotle, is occasionally incorrectly cited as being the treatise in question. Aristotle (384–322 B.C.E.) reportedly discovered a treatise on the subject of palmistry on an altar of Hermes, which he then presented to Alexander the Great (356–323 B.C.E.), who took great interest in examining the character of his officers by analyzing the lines on their hands. Palmistry also progressed independently in Greece where Anaxagoras practiced it. From India, the art of palmistry spread to China, Tibet and to other countries in Europe. Several thousand years ago, the Hindu sage Valmiki is thought to have written a book comprising 567 stanzas, the title of which translates in English as The Teachings of Valmiki Maharishi on Male Palmistry. The acupuncturist Yoshiaki Omura describes its roots in Hindu astrology (known in Sanskrit as jyotish), Chinese Yijing ( I Ching), and Roma fortune tellers. Palmistry is a practice common to many different places on the Eurasian landmass it has been practiced in the cultures of Sumeria, Babylonia, Arabia, Canaan, Persia, India, Nepal, Tibet and China. The Fortune Teller, by Caravaggio (1594–95 canvas Louvre), depicting a palm reading Ancient palmistry
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