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Author:   James Dougal Fleming
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
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9781032757506

ISBN 10:   1032757507
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   22 May 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Introduction The Double physician Informatio medici Messages and meanings From hand to soul Part One: Technology 1. The Seventeenth-Century Shorthand Movement: In Four Corners A Protean art Yet shorter Groovy images Another way to the word 2. “My Invention”: What Was Characterie? Verbatim notation Informational exchange Hybrid publishing Innovation Source 3. “Indifferently Affected”: The Characterie Terms Wanting an alphabet De arte combinatoria A Book of lists Writing sermons Orality and control Mere information Part Two: Theory 4. Against Navigation: English Medicines The Medical background, ca. 1580 An English Galenism, 1574 The Paracelsian difference, 1585 TEM (i) Aut externi orbis (ii) Here be (no) serpents 5. “Never Able to Abide”: The Melancholy Conscience The Medical Tradition: Natural, genial, adust The Literary Valence: Euphues his face Treatment: Going on a data TMel (i) “Saving that” (ii) “No medicine, no purgation, no cordial” (iii) “Spectacles are to be shunned” (iv) “In written words revealed” 6. “The Mechenist”: Not Being There TMel (v) The Natural chemist (vi) Invisible seeds (vii) Bright’s spirit (viii) Faculty and instruments (ix) In machina (x) Serenity of the spotless psyche (xi) Information overload Conclusion Appendices 1. Sixteenth-Century English shorthands before Bright’s? The absence of evidence. 2. Lists of the Characterie terms. 3. Bright on “soul” and “mind.” Bibliography

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James Dougal Fleming is Professor of English Literature at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. His research is primarily in early modern intellectual history, with an emphasis on epistemic issues surrounding, and arising from, the Scientific Revolution. His previous books are Milton’s Secrecy and Philosophical Hermeneutics (2008), The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England: John Wilkins and the Universal Character (2017), and (ed. and intro.) The Invention of Discovery, 1500–1700 (2011).

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