The Resource The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England : John Wilkins and the Universal Character, by James Dougal Fleming, (electronic resource)
The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England : John Wilkins and the Universal Character, by James Dougal Fleming, (electronic resource)
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- 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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- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (XI, 292 pages)
- Contents
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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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- 9783319403014
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- The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England : John Wilkins and the Universal Character
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- The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England
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- John Wilkins and the Universal Character
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- by James Dougal Fleming
- Language
- eng
- 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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- 978-3-319-40301-4
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- 1 online resource (XI, 292 pages)
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- Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
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- (OCoLC)962017914
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- The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England : John Wilkins and the Universal Character, by James Dougal Fleming, (electronic resource)
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- Contents
- 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.
- Control code
- 978-3-319-40301-4
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- Extent
- 1 online resource (XI, 292 pages)
- File format
- multiple file formats
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
- Isbn
- 9783319403014
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- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- c
- Other control number
- 10.1007/978-3-319-40301-4
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- (OCoLC)962017914
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