The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England : John Wilkins and the Universal Character / by James Dougal Fleming.
Fleming, James Dougal, author.
2017
HN8-HN19
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Title The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England : John Wilkins and the Universal Character / by James Dougal Fleming.
Author Fleming, James Dougal, author.
ISBN 9783319403014
331940301X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40301-4
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 292 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-40301-4 doi
Call Number HN8-HN19
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.09
Summary This book examines the seventeenth-century project for a "real" or "universal" character: a scientific and objective code. Focusing on the Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language (1668) of the polymath John Wilkins, Fleming provides a detailed explanation of how a real character actually was supposed to work. He argues that the period movement should not be understood as a curious episode in the history of language, but as an illuminating avatar of information technology. A non-oral code, supposedly amounting to a script of things, the character was to support scientific discourse through a universal database, in alignment with cosmic truths. In all these ways, J.D. Fleming argues, the world of the character bears phenomenological comparison to the world of modern digital information--what has been called the infosphere.
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Introduction
Mercurial messages: What is information?
Unreal characters: Orality and technology in seventeenth-century England
Through a glass, literally: From shorthand to Wilkins's Essay
The next big thing: How the real character works
The Circularity: Or, how to end the world.

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