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The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England: John Wilkins and the Universal Character

The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England: John Wilkins and the Universal Character

Fleming, James Dougal

Hardcover

LinguisticsSports GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 3319403001
ISBN13: 9783319403007
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Nov 4 2016
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.11 Depth: 8.64
Language: English

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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