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Brook Taylor to Hans Sloane – April 11, 1715


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Date: April 11, 1715
Author: Brook Taylor
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 29



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Taylor can send Sloane’s packages to Paris if he wishes. Brook Taylor (1685-1731) was a mathematician. He published mathematical monographs as well as articles in the Philosophical Transactions. Taylor was greatly involved in the Royal Society and debates surrounding Newtonian mechanics and calculus (Lenore Feigenbaum, ‘Taylor, Brook (1685–1731)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27019, accessed 16 July 2014]).




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