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The mirror of information in early modern England : John Wilkins and the universal character

Fleming, James Dougal, 1968- author

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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. 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.\"--Back cover.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: Wilkins, John, 1614-1672. / Language and languages Philosophy History 17th century. / Language, Universal. / Information technology. / England Intellectual life History 17th century.
• ISBN: 9783319403007, 3319403001

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