John Bulwer (s.: G.-B. Gent) Getauft 16.05.1606 - † 16.10.1656, englischer Natur-Philosoph und Mediziner.
»Chirologia, or the Naturall Language of the Hand. Composed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures thereof. Whereonto is added Chironomia: Or, the Art of Manuall Rhetorick. Consisting of the Naturall Expressions, disgested by Art in the Hand, as the chiefest Instrument of Eloquence, by Historicall Manifesto's exemplified Out of the Authentique Registers of Common Life, and Civill Conservation. With Types, or Chyrograms: A long-wish'd for illustration of this Argument. By J. B. Gent, Philochirosophus. [...].« London, Printed by Tho[mas] Harper, and are to be sold by Henry Twyford, at his shop in Fleetstreet. 1644. 8°,
Blatt 1 - Blatt 24, S. 1 - S. 188, Tafel 1 - 3.

Zu Gesten und Finger-Alphabeth:
„The Canons of the Rhetoricians touching the Artificiall managing of the Hand in Speaking. With an Historicall Manifesto, exemplifying the Rhetoricall Actions thereof.“ Index, 1 Taf. (S. 27 - S. 63);
„Indigitatio: Or, the Canons of the Fingers.“ 1 Taf. (S. 67 - S. 90);
„The Apochrypha of Action: Or, certaine Prevarications against the Rule of Rhetoricall Decorum, noted in the Hands of the Ancient and Modern Oratours.“ (S. 97 - S. 130);
„Certaine Cautionary Notions, Extracted out of the Ancient and Moderne Theotoricians, for the completing of this Art of Manuall Rhetorique, and the better regulating the important gestures of the Hand & Fingers.“ (S. 131 - S. 146).

Bibliographischer Nachweis: NUC-Pre Bd. 84, S. 126.
Literatur: Carus 1925, S. 71; Thorndike 1958, Bd. 8, S. 461; Campe 1990, S. 419, 444 (Nachfolge von Bacon, Spiel der Hände rhetorisch-physiognomisch), 557; Campe 1990 a, S. 73 (1974!); Bremmer 1991, S. 123, 257; Thomas 1991, in: Bremmer 1991, S. 12, Anm. 7; Borrmann 1994, S. 66, Abb. 34; Campe 1996 a, S. 132, Anm. 20, 603.

Exemplare: › digital; London, BM, Sign.: 959.a.14.; Paris, Bib. Nat. de France, Sign.: Rés.X.1653 (1.): › Titel; Privatbesitz.

»Chironomia: Or, the art of Manuall Rhetorique. With the Canons, Lawes, Rites, Ordinances, and Institutes of Rhetoricians, both Ancient and Modern, Touching the artificiall managing of the Hand in speaking, whereby the naturall gestures of the hand are made the regulated accessories or faire-spoken adjuncts of rhetoricall utterance. With types or chirograms: a new illustration of this argument. By J. B. Philochirosophus.« London, Printed by Tho[mas] Harper, 1644. 8°,
- XIV Blatt, XXVI Blatt, S. 1 - S. 146.

Bibliographischer Nachweis: BM Bd. 29, S. 762; Cat.Gött. Bd. 1, S. 105.
Literatur: Laehr 1900, S. 1, 228.

Exemplar: Göttingen, Univ. Bibliothek, Sign.: 8° A.ill.2170 (2). (Exemplar enthalten in »Chirologia.«, 1648, eigene Titelgravuren), › Titel.

»[...] ed. by J. W. Cleary.« = Landmarks in rhetoric and public address. London - Amsterdam 1973.

John Bulwer, »Chirologia, Chironomia [...]. London 1644. Facsimile ed. by Language, Man and Society Foundation of the Behavioural Sciences, with a introduction by H. R. Gillis.« New York 1975.