The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England : John Wilkins and the Universal Character / / by James Dougal Fleming
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| Autore: |
Fleming James Dougal
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| Titolo: |
The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England : John Wilkins and the Universal Character / / by James Dougal Fleming
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XI, 292 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.09 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social history |
| Intellectual life—History | |
| Historical linguistics | |
| Philosophy | |
| Language and languages—Philosophy | |
| Social History | |
| Intellectual Studies | |
| Language History | |
| History of Philosophy | |
| Philosophy of Language | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. . |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. . |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England |
| ISBN: | 3-319-40301-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910148846703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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