Mirror of Information in Early Modern England

Mirror of Information in Early Modern England

John Wilkins and the Universal Character

Fleming, James Dougal

Springer International Publishing AG

11/2016

292

Dura

Inglês

9783319403007

15 a 20 dias

5005


ebook

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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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computing historians;John Wilkins;Seventeenth-century European intellectuals;artificial language;information theory;Hans-Georg Gadamer;intellectual history;universal character;hermeneutics;phenomenology