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N2  - 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.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-319-40301-4
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AB  - 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.
T1  - The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England :John Wilkins and the Universal Character /
AU  - Fleming, James Dougal,
CN  - HN8-HN19
ID  - 777741
KW  - History.
KW  - Social history.
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Philosophy.
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Historical linguistics.
SN  - 9783319403014
SN  - 331940301X
TI  - The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England :John Wilkins and the Universal Character /
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