The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England

John Wilkins and the Universal Character

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James Dougal Fleming

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

November 4th, 2016

Author

James Dougal Fleming

Pages

292

Edition

1st ed. 2016

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

XI, 292 p.

Dimensions

148x210x21

ISBN-13

9783319403007

Product ID

25656733

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