Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand

Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand

Melancholy, Medicines, and the Information of the Soul

Fleming, James Dougal

Taylor & Francis Ltd

06/2024

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9781032757490

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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
Shorthand / Early Modern England / Sixteenth century / Seventeenth century / Preaching / History of Medicine / Melancholy / Humours / Information technology / Phenomenology / Timothie Bright / Paracelsus / Severinus / psyche