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Taylor, Brook (1685–1731)| English mathematician and secretary of the Royal Society. |
| He entered St John's College, Cambridge, 1701. In 1712 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, rising to the position of secretary in 1714. In Paris, 1716, he received an enthusiastic reception from the French savants. He returned to England in 1717 and resumed his studies, but was forced by declining health to resign his secretaryship in 1719. His Methodus incrementorum (Methods of incrementation) and a Treatise on Linear Perspective were published in 1715. |
| He was born in Edmonton, Middlesex. |
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