| 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 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EL/T/71 | Extract of a letter, from Brooke Taylor to Hans Sloane | 1712 |
| MM/5/47 | Letter from Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Paris, to the Royal Society | 9 June 1714 |
| IM/004498 | Taylor, Brook | nd |
| 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 |