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Taylor , Brook , 1685–1731 , mathematician
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Born, 1685; Education: Educated at home; Secket's private school; St John's College, Cambridge; LLB (1709), LLD (1714); Career: Advocate in the Court of Arches (1714-c 1720); travelled to France several times; corresponded with Pierre Remond de Montmort (FRS 1715); worked on the application of calculus to various problems, including the refraction of light and the determination of the centres of oscillation and percussion and enunciated the principle of vanishing points; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1712; Royal Society Council: 1714-1717, 1721, 1723, 1725; Royal Society Secretary, 1714-1718; died, 1731.