"It seems that those, who have hitherto treated of this Subject, have been more conversant in the Practice of Designing, than in the Principles of Geometry... that might have enabled them to render the Principles of it more universal, and more convenient for Practice. In this Book I have endeavour'd to do this; and have done my utmost to render the Principles of the Art as general, and as universal as may be, and to devise such Constructions, as might be the most simple and useful in Practice."
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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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