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The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England - John Wilkins and the Universal Character (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
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The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England - John Wilkins and the Universal Character (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
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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.
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