@article{777741,
      author = {Fleming, James Dougal,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/777741},
      title = {The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England : John  Wilkins and the Universal Character /},
      abstract = {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.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40301-4},
      recid = {777741},
      pages = {1 online resource (xi, 292 pages)},
}