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3 unusual facts about Brook Taylor


Brook Taylor

Taylor's fragile health gave way; he fell into a decline, and died aged 46, on 30 November 1731 at Somerset House, London.

Satire on False Perspective

Until Brook Taylor's treatise on linear perspective was published in 1715, artists were taught perspective by studying methods used in earlier works by famous artists, rather than studying the mathematics behind the methods.

Scientific pitch

(Other contemporary researchers such as Christiaan Huygens, Vittorio Francesco Stancari and Brook Taylor were finding similar and lower values for A4, as low as 383 Hz.)


Taylor's theorem

Taylor's theorem is named after the mathematician Brook Taylor, who stated a version of it in 1712.


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