What is the history of Chiromancy?

It is of such ancient date that its birth is lost in the obscurity of past ages, whilst its light and beauty have improved with the march of physiological and mental science.It is so ancient that the sages practised it at Buddha's birth,which occurred about 550B.C. Hartleib wrote upon it as early as 1448, and Aristotle was the author of an article upon its merits in 1490; but dim records of the Eastern magicians practising it long before the Christian era are handed down to us, thus proving the science of Palmistry able to hold its own, and to live through all assaults, fierce as they may have been upon it at times.