Mirror of Information in Early Modern England

John Wilkins and the Universal Character

AvJames Dougal Fleming

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-06-27
Mått:148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt:401 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:292
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319820736

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James Dougal Fleming is Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He studies the history and theory of interpretation and understanding. In 2012, he co-founded the international conference series Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World. This is his third book.

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“Fleming’s is an engaging … book that provides an important addition to existing scholarship on the oddly early modern preoccupation with the need for a universal language.” (Allison B. Kavey, Metascience, September 5, 2019)

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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.