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The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England : John Wilkins and the Universal Character.
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| 著者・編者 | Fleming, James Dougal, |
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| 出版社 | (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) |
| 出版年月 | 2016 |
| ページ数 | 121 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜634-L2367 634-L78＞ |
解説
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.