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See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
TAYLOR, See also:BROOK (1685–1731) , See also:English mathematician, was the son of See also:John Taylor, of Bifrons See also:House, See also:Kent, by Olivia, daughter of See also:Sir See also:Nicholas See also:Tempest, See also:Bart., of See also:Durham, and was See also:born at See also:Edmonton in See also:Middlesex on the 18th of See also:August 1685. He entered St John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, as a See also:fellow-commoner in 1701, and took degrees of LL.B. and LL.D. respectively in 1709 and 1714. Having studied See also:mathematics under John Machin and John Keill, he obtained in 1708 a remarkable See also:solution of the problem of the " centre of oscillation," which, however, remaining unpublished until May 1714 (Phil. Trans., vol. See also:xxviii. p. I1), his claim to priority was unjustly disputed by John See also:Bernoulli. Taylor's Methodus Incrementorum Directa et Inversa (See also:London, 1715) added a new See also:branch to the higher mathematics, now designated the " calculus of finite See also:differences." Among other ingenious applications, he used it to determine
the See also:form of See also:movement of a vibrating See also:string, by him first See also:sue- See also:neighbour and intimate friend of See also:Wordsworth, who introduced cessfully reduced to See also:mechanical principles. The same See also:work him to Wordsworth and See also:Southey. Under these influences he lost his See also:early admiration for See also:Byron, whose school, whatever its merits, he at least was in no way calculated to adorn, and his intellectual See also:powers See also:developed rapidly. In See also:October 1822 he published an See also:article on See also:Moore's Irish Melodies in the Quarterly See also:Review. A See also:year later he went to London to seek his See also:fortune as a See also:man of letters, and met with rapid success, though not precisely in this capacity. He became editor of the London See also:Magazine, to which he had already contributed, and in See also:January 1824 obtained, through the See also:influence of Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, a See also:good See also:appointment inthe Colonial See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office. He was immediately entrusted with the preparation of confidential See also:state papers, and his See also:opinion soon exercised an important influence on the decisions of the secretary of state. He visited Wordsworth and Southey, travelled on the See also:Continent with the latter, and at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, mainly through his friend and See also:official colleague, the Hon. See also:Hyde See also:Villiers, became intimate with a very different set, the younger followers of See also:Bentham, without, however, adopting their opinions—" See also:young men," he afterwards reminded See also:Stuart See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
Mill, " who every one said would be ruined by their See also:independence, but who ended by obtaining all their See also:hearts' desires, except one who See also:fell by the way." The reference is to Hyde Villiers, who died prematurely. Taylor actively promoted the emancipation of the slaves in 1833, and became an intimate ally of Sir See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Stephen, then counsel to the Colonial Office, afterwards under-secretary, by whom the See also:Act of Emancipation was principally framed. His duties at the Colonial Office were soon afterwards lightened by the appointment of James Sped-ding, with whom he began a friendship that lasted till the end of his See also:life. .
His first See also:drama, See also:Isaac See also:Comnenus, Elizabethan in See also:tone, and giving a lively picture of the See also:Byzantine See also:court and See also:people, was published anonymously in 1828. Though highly praised by Southey, it made little impression on the public. See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:van See also:Artevelde, an elaborate poetic drama, the subject of which had been recommended to him by Southey, was begun in 1828, published in 1834, and, aided by a laudatory See also:criticism from See also:Lockhart's See also:pen in the Quarterly, achieved extraordinary success. Its See also:great superiority to Taylor's other See also:works may be explained by its being to a great extent the vehicle of his own ideas and feelings. Artevelde's early love experiences reproduce and transfigure his own. See also:Edwin the See also:Fair (1842) was less warmly received; but his See also:character of See also:Dunstan, the ecclesiastical statesman, is a See also:fine psychological study, and the See also:play is full of See also:historical See also:interest. Meanwhile he had married (1839) See also:Theodosia See also:Spring-See also:Rice, the daughter of his former See also:chief See also:Lord See also:Monteagle, and, in See also:conjunction with Sir James Stephen, had taken a leading See also:part in the abolition of See also:negro See also:apprenticeship in the See also:West Indies. The Statesman, a See also:volume of essays suggested by his official position, had been published in 1836, and about the same time he had written in the Quarterly the friendly notices of Words-See also:worth and Southey which did much to dispel the conventional prejudices of the See also:day, and which were published in 1849 under the somewhat misleading See also:title of Notes from Books.
In 1847 he was offered the under-secretaryship of state fot
the colonies, which he declined. Notes from Life and The See also:Eve
of the See also:Conquest appeared in this year; and an experiment in
romantic See also:comedy, The Virgin Widow, afterwards entitled A
Sicilian Summer, was published in 185o. " The pleasantest
play I had written," says the author; " and I never could tell
why people would not be pleased with it." His last dramatic
work was St See also:Clement's Eve, published in 1862. In 1869
he was made K.C.M.G. He retired from the Colonial Office in
1872, though continuing to be consulted by See also:government. His
last days were spent at See also:Bournemouth in the enjoyment of
universal respect; and the public, to whom he had hitherto
been an almost impersonal existence, became familiarized with
the extreme picturesqueness of his See also:appearance in old See also:age, as
represented in the photographs of his friend Julia See also:Margaret
See also:Cameron. He died on the 27th of See also:March 1886. His Auto-
he became acquainted with het See also:cousin, See also:Isabella See also:Fenwick, the \. See also:biography, published a yeas before his See also:death, ,while sinning a
contained the celebrated See also:formula known as " Taylor's theorem " (see INFINITESIMAL CALCULUS), the importance of which remained unrecognized until 1772, when J. L. See also:Lagrange realized its powers and termed it " le See also:principal fondement du calcul difjerentiel."
In his See also:essay on Linear See also:Perspective (London, 1715) Taylor set forth the true principles of the See also:art in an See also:original and more See also:general form than any of his predecessors; but the work suffered from the brevity and obscurity which affected most of his writings, and needed the elucidation bestowed on it in the See also:treatises of See also:Joshua See also:Kirby (1754) and See also:Daniel See also:Fournier (1761).
Taylor was elected a fellow of the Royal Society early in 1712, sat in the same year on the See also:committee for adjudicating the claims of Sir Isaac See also:Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm See also:Leibnitz, and acted as secretary to the society from the 13th of January 1714 to the 21st of October 1718. From 1715 his studies took a philosophical and religious See also:bent. He corresponded, in that year, with the See also:Comte de Montmort on the subject of See also:Nicolas See also:Malebranche's tenets; and unfinished treatises, " On the Jewish Sacrifices " and " On the Lawfulness of Eating See also:Blood," written on his Teturn from See also:Aix-la-Chapelle in 1719, were after-wards found among his papers. His See also:marriage in 1721 with See also:Miss See also:Brydges of Wallington, See also:Surrey, led to an estrangement from his See also:father, a See also:person of somewhat morose See also:temper, which terminated in 1723 after the death of the See also:lady in giving See also:birth to a son. The ensuing two years were spent by him with his See also:family at Bifrons, and in 1725 he married, with the paternal approbation, Sabetta, daughter of Mr Sawbridge of Olantigh, Kent, who, by a See also:strange fatality, died also in childbed in 1730; in this See also:case, however, the See also:infant, a daughter, survived. Taylor's fragile See also:health gave way; he fell into a decline, died on the 29th of See also:December 1731, at See also:Somerset House, and was buried at St See also:Ann's, Soho. By his father's death in 1729 he had inherited the Bifrons See also:estate. As a mathematician, he was the only Englishman after Sir Isaac Newton and See also:Roger See also:Cotes capable of holding his own with the Bernoullis; but a great part of the effect of his demonstrations was lost through his failure to See also:express his ideas fully and clearly.
A See also:posthumous work entitled Contemplatio Philosophica was printed for private circulation in 1793 by his See also:grandson, Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Young, Bart., prefaced by a life of the author, and with an appendix containing letters addressed to him by See also:Bolingbroke, See also:Bossuet, &c. Several See also:short papers by him were published in Phil. Trans., vols. See also:xxvii. to xxxii., including accounts of some interesting experiments in See also:magnetism and capillary attraction. He issued in 1719 an improved version of his work on perspective, with the title New Principles of Linear Perspective, revised by Colson in 1749, and printed again, with portrait and life of the author, in 1811. A See also:French See also:translation appeared in 1753 at See also:Lyons. Taylor gave (Methodus Incrementorum, p. 108) the first satisfactory investigation of astronomical See also:refraction.
See See also:Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica; See also:Hutton, Phil. and Math. See also:Dictionary; F6tis, Biog. See also:des Musiciens; Th. See also:Thomson, Hist. of the R. Society, p. 302; See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant, Hist. Phys. See also:Astronomy, p. 377; See also:Marie, Hist. des Sciences, vii. p. 231; M. Cantor, Geschichte der Mathematik.
End of Article: TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
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