# Jackson's Gymnastics for the Fingers and Wrist being a system of gymnastics, based on anatomical principles, for developing and strengthening the muscles of the hand for musical, mechanical and medical purposes: with thirty-seven diagrams

Author: Jackson, Edwin Ward

Genre: Category: Music

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67375

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## Summary

The skeleton of the hand, consisting of 27 bones and moved by 40 muscles, most ingeniously combines firmness with pliant flexibility, is equally fit for rough work and the most subtle occupation, and corresponds in its well-balanced mechanism with that mental superiority through which man, amongst all creatures the poorest in means of defence, becomes the ruler of living and inanimate nature. The hand, fixed to the end of a long articulated column of bones, and, through its skin-covering, particularly in the cavity, endowed with high sensibility, raises itself to the importance of an organ of feeling, which, moveable in all directions, apprizes us of the extent of matter, and of its physi...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII. (CONTINUED).](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/17/index.md)
- [d. Two muscles, also rising from the cavity of the hand, and moving the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/4/index.md)
- [c. Contractors of the fingers, rising from the hand itself, between](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jackson-s-gymnastics-for-the-fingers-and-wrist-being-a-system-o-0aaeba7a/chapters/3/index.md)