Totalité et infini  de la machine à tout dire de Gulliver’s Travels : du programme littéraire au programme informatique

The machine presented in the Academy of Lagado in the third voyage of Gulliver’s Travels exemplifies the fantasy of collecting the entirety of all possible texts. The imaginary device foreshadows major questions raised by mathematics and probabilities as well as the recent progress made by natural l...

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Main Author: Amélie Derome
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 2021-12-01
Series:XVII-XVIII
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/1718/5936