| Authorised form of name | Taylor; Brook (1685 - 1731) |
| Dates | 1685 - 1731 |
| Place of birth | Edmonton, Middlesex, England |
| Date of birth | 18 August 1685 |
| Place of death | Somerset House, London |
| Date of death | 30 November 1731 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
St Ann's, Soho, London |
| Occupation | Barrister |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Activity | 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
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1712 |
| Proposer | John Keill |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1714-1717, 1721, 1723, 1725; Sec 1714-1718 |
| Relationships | Son of John Taylor, merchant, of Bifrons House and his wife, Olivia, daughter of Sir Nicholas Tempest, Bart, of Durham and his wife, Ann Price.
Married: 1) Miss Brydges of Wallington, Surrey; 2) Sabetta, daughter of John Sawbridge of Olantigh, Kent |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; Thomas; Venn; GEC Baronetage; Squibb
References:
Obituary in 'Gentleman's Magazine' 1731, p500
Notes:
Date of death from Gent's Mag. DNB gives grandfather's name as Sir John Tempest |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/73921270 |
| Code | NA6093 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| MS/82/6 | Notes on [George Cheyne, 'Philosophical principles of natural religion'] | [14 February] 1714 |
| MS/82/7 | Copy letter from Brook Taylor to [Edmund] Halley, dated at Bifrons House, Kent | 21 October 1718 |
| MS/82/25 | Letter from Abbé [Antonio Schinella] Conti to [Brook Taylor]; dated at Paris | 14 January 1724 |
| MS/82/24 | Letter from [Anne Claude] Count de Caylus to [Brook Taylor] | 1716-1718 |
| MS/82/15 | Letter from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor] | 12 April 1716 |
| MS/82/17 | Letter from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor], dated at Paris | 22 July 1717 |
| MS/82/9 | Copy letter from Brook Taylor to [John Keill], with extracts from letters by [Pierre Remond de] Montmort and Taylor | 3 May 1720 |
| MS/82/16 | Letter from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [John Taylor]; dated at Paris | 28 March 1717 |
| MS/82/28 | Paper; Two solutions to a problem pertaining to integral calculus, "Due Soluzioni d'un Problema Spettante al Calcolo Integrale del Conte Giulio Carlo de Fagnini"; by [Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano] | 1723 |
| MS/82/23 | Letter from Abbé [Antonio Schinella] Conti to [Brook Taylor]; dated at Paris | 14 July 1721 |
| MS/82/8 | Extracts from [Jean] Bernoulli's letter to [Pierre Remond de] Montmort | 14 February 1719 |
| MS/82/20 | Letter from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor] | 30 January 1719 |
| MS/82/13 | Letter from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor]; dated at Paris | 31 March 1716 |
| MS/82/27 | Letter from [Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano] de Fagnani to [Brook Taylor]; dated at [Senigallia, Italy] Sinigaglia | 6 April 1723 |
| MS/82/14 | Letter from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor]; dated at Paris | 12 April 1716 |
| MS/82/11 | Letter from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor]; dated at Montmort | 6 September 1715 |
| MS/82/18 | Letter from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor]; dated at Montmort | 1 August 1717 |
| MS/82/22 | Letter from Abbé [Antonio Schinella] Conti to [Brook Taylor]; dated at Paris | 22 May 1721 |
| MS/82/21 | Letter from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor]; dated at Paris | 26 March 1719 |
| MS/82/19 | Letter from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor]; dated at Paris | 26 April 1718 |
| MS/82/2 | Letter from Brook Taylor to [John] Machin; dated at Bifrons House, Kent | 26 July 1712 |
| EL/T/71 | Extract of a letter, from Brooke Taylor to Hans Sloane | 1712 |
| MS/82/26 | Letter from [Abbé Antonio Schinella Conti] to [Brook Taylor] | 1721 |
| MM/5/47 | Letter from Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Paris, to the Royal Society | 9 June 1714 |
| MS/82/12 | Letter from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor]; dated at Montmort | 2 January 1716 |
| MS/82/5 | Letter from Brook Taylor to [John] Keill, dated at Bifrons House, Kent | 3 July 1713 |
| MS/82/4 | Letter from Brook Taylor to [John Keill] | 9 October 1712 |
| MS/82/3 | Letter from Brook Taylor to [John Keill] | 11 September 1712 |
| MS/82/10 | Copy letter from Brook Taylor to [John Keill] | 7 May 1720 |
| IM/004498 | Taylor, Brook | nd |
| MS/82/1 | Letter from Brook Taylor to [John Keill]; dated at Bifrons House, Kent | 15 July 1712 |
| MS/82/8a | Copy letter from [Brook Taylor] to [Pierre Remond de] Montmort | 14 February 1719 |
| MS/390/146 | Bond of Brook Taylor to the Treasurer of the Royal Society | 27 March 1712 |
| CLP/3ii/12 | Paper, 'De propositiones aliquot de projectilium motu parabolico scriptae anno 1710' ['Some proposals on parabolic motion of projectiles written in the year 1710'] by B [Brook?] Taylor | [1710] |
| MM/5/49 | Letter from Brooke Taylor, near Canterbury, to Isaac Newton | 22 April 1716 |
| MS/82 | Correspondence of Dr Brook Taylor, Secretary of the Royal Society | 1712-1717 |
| P/0129 | Portrait of Taylor, Brook | |
| CLP/6/67 | Paper, 'An account of an experiment, made to ascertain the proportion of the expansion of the liquor in the thermometer, with regard to the degrees of heat' by Brook Taylor | [1722] |
| EL/T/70 | Letter, from Brook Taylor to Hans Sloane, dated at Bifrons near Canterbury | 25 June 1712 |
| MS/82/15a | Incomplete letter from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to unnamed correspondent | 1715-1727 |