The dumb language or the art of talking with the fingers. Coloured line engraving, published: Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Pauls Church Yard, London (Wellcome Library, London). Chirologia, or the naturall language of the hand. Composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof, by John Bulwer 1644. John Bulwer (1606-1656), was a doctor, who lived around Gray’s Inn in London.















