John Bulwer gesturology before the letter

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John Bulwer gesturology before the letter

• CHIROLOGIA or the NATURALL LANGUAGE of the HAND.
  Composed of the Speaking Motions and Discoursing
  Gestures thereof. (1644)
• Whereunto is added CHIRONOMIA or The Art of
  MANUALL RHETORICKE. Consisting of the Naturall
  Expressions digested by art in the HAND as the
  chiefest Instrument of Eloquence. (1644)
• PATHOMYOTOMIA, or a Dissection of the
  Significative MUSCLES of the Affections of the
  Minde (1649)

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For with our hands we sue, entreat, beseech,
solicit, call, allure, entice, dismiss, grant,
deny, reprove, are suppliant, fear, threaten,
abhor, repent, pray, instruct, witness, accuse,
declare our silence, condemn, absolve, show our
astonishment,proffer, refuse, respect, give
honor, adore, worship, despise, prohibit,
reject, challenge, bargain, vow, swear,
imprecate, humour, allow, give warning, command,
reconcile, submit, defy, affront, offer injury,
complement, argue, dispute, explode, confute,
exhort, admonish, affirm, distinguish, urge,
doubt, reproach, mock, approve, dislike,
encourage, recommend, flatter, applaud, exalt,
humble, insult, adjure, yield, confess, cherish,
demand, crave, covet, bless, number, prove,
confirm, salute, congratulate, entertain, give
thanks,welcome, bid farewell, chide, brawl,
consent, upbraid, envy, reward, offer force,
pacify, invite, justify, contemn, disdain,
disallow, forgive, offer peace, promise, perform,
reply, invoke, request, repel, charge, satisfy,
deprecate, lament, condole, bemoan, put in mind,
hinder, praise, commend, brag, boast, warrant,
assure, inquire, direct, adopt, rejoice, show
gladness, complain, despair, grieve, are sad and
sorrowful, cry out, bewail, forbid,
discomfort, ask, are angry, wonder, admire, pity,
assent, order, rebuke, savor, slight, dispraise,
disparage, are earnest, importunate, refer, put
to compromise, plight our faith, make a league of
friendship, strike one good luck, take
earnest, buy, barter, exchange, show our
agreement, express our liberality, show
our benevolence, ask mercy, exhibit grace, show
our displeasure, fret, chafe, fume, rage,
revenge, crave audience, call for silence,
prepare for an apology, give liberty of speech,
bid one to take notice, warn one to forbear, keep
off and be gone take acquaintance, make
remonstrance of anothers error, weep,
give pledge of aid, comfort, relieve,
demonstrate, persuade, resolve, speak to, appeal,
profess a willingness to strike, show ourselves
convinced, present a check for silence, promise
secrecy, protect our innocence, manifest our
love, enmity, hate, and spite provoke,
hyperbolically extoll, enlarge our mirth
with jollity and triumphant acclamations of
delight, note and signify anothers actions, the
manner, place, and time, as how, where, when,
etc.
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John Bulwer gesturology before the letter

• CHIROLOGIA or the NATURALL LANGUAGE of the HAND.
  Composed of the Speaking Motions and Discoursing
  Gestures thereof. (1644)
• Whereunto is added CHIRONOMIA or The Art of
  MANUALL RHETORICKE. Consisting of the Naturall
  Expressions digested by art in the HAND as the
  chiefest Instrument of Eloquence. (1644)
• PATHOMYOTOMIA, or a Dissection of the
  Significative MUSCLES of the Affections of the
  Minde (1649)

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Anti-gestural prejudice

• Gesture is not the true language of man ...
  Gesture, instead of addressing the mind,
  addresses the imagination and the senses.
• Thus for us, it is an absolute necessity to
  prohibit that language and to replace it with
  living speech, the only instrument of human
  thought. On the decision at the International
  Conference of Deaf Educators to ban the use of
  Sign and all gestural communication in schools
  for the deaf. (Milan, 1890)

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Visual based motion capture stills
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Magnetic based Motion Capture
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Hand and MindWhat Gestures Reveal about
ThoughtDavid McNeill 1992

• Considered jointly with speech, gestures open a
  window onto the mind. ... Taking gesture into
  account, we see patterns not revealed by speech
  alone and see more comprehensively how meanings
  are constructed. Gesture is not only a display of
  meaning but is part of the act of constructing
  meaning itself, adding a material carrier that
  helps bring meaning into existence ...

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New Avenues for the Microanalysis of Mathematics
Learning Connecting Talk, Gesture, and Eye
Motion Ricardo Nemirovsky Francesca Ferrara,
2004 Thinking encompasses parallel streams of
bodily activity (gesturing, talking, walking,
etc) which sometimes converge. ...
Thinking is not a process that takes place
behind or underneath bodily activity, but is
the bodily activity itself.
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Scanning pattern of eye movements of subject
observing bust of Nefertiti
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Mirror NeuronsorThe Monkey See Monkey Do
phenomenon

• mirror neurons will do for psychology what DNA
  did for biology they will provide a unifying
  framework and help explain a host of mental
  abilities that have hitherto remained mysterious
  and inaccessible to experiments.
• V.S.Ramachandran 2004

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DECETY
Primary motor cortex activation during actual
(right) and imagined (left) gesture with the
right hand - fMRI
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The Motor Theory of Language Origin Robin Allott
(1989)
In the evolution of language, shapes or objects
seen, sounds heard, and actions perceived or
performed, generated neural programs which, on
transfer to the vocal apparatus, produced words
structurally correlted with the perceived shapes,
objects, sounds and actions. The motor program
generating a word, an articulatory gesture, also
generates an equivalent body gesture. Gesture
mediates between word-structure and word-meaning.
In the case of a different word in a different
language for the same meaning, a similar final
gesture is generated by a different intermediary
gesture associated with different speech-sound
elements going to form different words. The
gesture associated with the meaning of any word
can be observed by mentally transferring the
sound-structure of the word (the articulatory
gesture) to the musculature of the arms. The
forms of individual words are not arbitrary but
directly derived from and related to the meaning
of the words.
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MOTOR/SPEECH-SOUND GROUPS
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Where Mathematics Comes FromHow the Embodied
Mind brings Mathematicsinto BeingGeorge Lakoff
and Rafael Nunez (2000)
All mathematical content resides in embodied
mathematical ideas A large number of the
most basic, as well as the most sophisticated,
mathematical ideas are metaphorical in nature.
The same neural structure used in the control
of complex motor schemas can also be used to
reason about events and actions.
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2- and 3-dimensional representations of
hyperbolic surfaces
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Figuring Space(Les enjeux du mobile, 1993)
Philosophy, Mathematics, and PhysicsGilles
Chatelet 2000
Gestures and problems mark an epoch and unknown
to geometers and philosophers guide the eye and
the hand. Gesture is not substantial it gains
amplitude by determining itself. Gesture
refers to a disciplined distribution of mobility
before any transfer takes place one is infused
with the gesture before knowing it. A diagram
can transfix a gesture, bring it to rest, long
before it curls up into a sign. Unlike the
metaphor the diagram is not exhausted if it
immobilizes a gesture in order to set down an
operation, it does so by sketching a gesture that
then cuts out another.
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math diagrams 1
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math diagrams 2
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math diagrams 3
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math diagrams 4
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and so on