The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England: John Wilkins and the Universal Character
Author:   James Dougal Fleming
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
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9783319403007


Pages:   292
Publication Date:   04 November 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   James Dougal Fleming
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   5.005kg
ISBN:  

9783319403007


ISBN 10:   3319403001
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   04 November 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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.            

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Fleming's is an engaging ... book that provides an important addition to existing scholarship on the oddly early modern preoccupation with the need for a universal language. (Allison B. Kavey, Metascience, September 5, 2019)


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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.

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