Selected Writings
A posthumous work entitled Contemplatio Philosophica was printed for private circulation in 1793 by Taylor's grandson, Sir William Young, 2nd Bart., (d 10 January 1815) prefaced by a life of the author, and with an appendix containing letters addressed to him by Bolingbroke, Bossuet, and others. Several short papers by Taylor were published in Phil. Trans., vols. xxvii. to xxxii., including accounts of some interesting experiments in magnetism and capillary attraction. In 1719 he issued an improved version of his work on perspective, with the title New Principles of Linear Perspective, revised by John Colson in 1749, and reprinted again, with portrait and life of the author, in 1811. A French translation appeared in 1753 at Lyon. Taylor gave (Methodus Incrementorum, p. 108) the first satisfactory investigation of astronomical refraction.
- Taylor, Brook (1715a), Methodus Incrementorum Directa et Inversa, London: Gul. Innys.
- Taylor, Brook (1715b), Linear Perspective: Or, a New Method of Representing Justly All Manner of Objects as They Appear to the Eye in All Situations, London: R. Knaplock.
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