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James Dougal Fleming
In Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J.D. Fleming brings together two areas of sixteenth-century intellectual history. One is the period emergence of artificial systems for verbatim shorthand notation—a crucial episode in t
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Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science. 9:280-289
Contents: Introduction: the invention of discovery, 1500-1700, James Dougal Fleming 'That full-sail voyage': travel narratives and astronomical discovery in Kepler and Galileo, Piers Brown Francis Bacon and the divine hierarchy of nature, Steven Matt
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https://doi.org/10.33137/aestimatio.v9i0.26003
Autor:
James Dougal Fleming
Scientific modernity treats interpretation as a matter of discovery. Discovery, however, may not be all that matters about interpretation. In Milton's Secrecy, J. D. Fleming argues that the poetry and prose of John Milton (1608-1674) are about the pr
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James Dougal Fleming
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
Autor:
James Dougal Fleming
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The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England ISBN: 9783319403007
Here Fleming explains how Wilkins’s Essay, the masterwork of the real-character movement, grew directly out of the earlier shorthand-character movement. He tells the story of George Dalgarno, the obscure Scottish schoolmaster whose innovations in s
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40301-4_4
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40301-4_4
Autor:
James Dougal Fleming
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The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England ISBN: 9783319403007
Having established that the real character is a form of information, Fleming critiques the Essay towards a real character as a site of information technology. Among its other benefits, the character was supposed to serve as a platform for universal c
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40301-4_6
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40301-4_6
Autor:
James Dougal Fleming
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The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England ISBN: 9783319403007
After examining the seventeenth-century interest in signals and cryptography, Fleming defines information on an elementary technical basis. Situating his discussion within post-war communications science, he stresses the concept of the message, the s
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40301-4_2
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40301-4_2
Autor:
James Dougal Fleming
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The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England ISBN: 9783319403007
In this chapter Fleming provides a detailed examination of the system of Wilkins’s Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language. He is keen to show that Wilkins’s great book of 1668 is not “just an essay,” but is instead a tra
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40301-4_5