Kaplan's Functional and Surgical Anatomy of the Hand

This is a specialist surgical anatomy textbook, originally by Emanuel Kaplan and revised in this edition by Morton Spinner, published by a medical publisher and used to train hand surgeons. Its authority comes from clinical and anatomical precision checked against dissection and surgical practice, not from religious or historical argument, which is exactly why the atlas cites it, for anatomical fact about the hand rather than for any claim about meaning. Its strength is exactness on structure, nerves, tendons and the mechanics of the hand. Its limit for this atlas's purposes is scope, it says nothing about palmistry or symbolic readings of the hand and is not written with that question in mind, so it should only be read here as a check on anatomical claims, not as commentary on divinatory practice.