"In order to this, I found it absolutely necessary to consider this Subject entirely anew, as if it had never been treated of before; the Principles of the old Perspective being so narrow, and so confined, that they could be of no use in my Design: And I was forced to invent new Terms of Art, those already in use being so peculiarly adapted to the imperfect Notions that have hitherto been had of this Art, that I could make no use of them in explaining those general Principles I intended to establish."
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Brook Taylor
Brook Taylor (18 August 1685 – 29 December 1731) was an English mathematician and secretary of the Royal Society of London, most famous for Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series.
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