Hands are crucial elements of the life of the city and the city has provided an opportunity for those hands to grow in influence… Though we write about the history of writing as a crucial element of human life, we forget that it takes the hand and unsung objects like the pen and pencil to bring it into being.

- Cities: Reimagining the Urban (Amin & Thrift, 2002)

"The mucous sheaths of the tendons on the front of the wrist and digits." Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, 1918.