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000777741 1001_ $$aFleming, James Dougal,$$eauthor.
000777741 24514 $$aThe Mirror of Information in Early Modern England :$$bJohn Wilkins and the Universal Character /$$cby James Dougal Fleming.
000777741 264_1 $$aCham :$$bSpringer International Publishing :$$bImprint :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c2017.
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000777741 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- Mercurial messages: What is information? -- Unreal characters: Orality and technology in seventeenth-century England -- Through a glass, literally: From shorthand to Wilkins's Essay -- The next big thing: How the real character works -- The Circularity: Or, how to end the world.
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000777741 520__ $$aThis 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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000777741 650_0 $$aPhilosophy.
000777741 650_0 $$aLanguage and languages$$xPhilosophy.
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