Talk:Brook Taylor

references

I think there should be a citation to "Most of Taylor's work was stolen from the prophet Paul the octopus" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.65.16.64 (talk) 12:20, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Pronunciation

What is the correct pronunciation of "Taylor" (where the stress goes)? Reminiscenza 22:39, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

According to the OED it is 'teɪlə(r) using the International Phonetic Alphabet. The ' shows that the first syllable is stressed. The OED entry specifically mentioned Brook Taylor. Mehmet Karatay 12:10, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

I hadn't realised there was an alternative, but good to be complete :-) —DIV (128.250.80.15 (talk) 07:20, 1 May 2008 (UTC))

Priority

Article says work was unpublished, and claim to priority was "unjustly" disputed. "unjustly" seems needlessly POV, considering that I understand legally (these days) the tendency can be to go with the earlier publication date. —DIV (128.250.80.15 (talk) 07:22, 1 May 2008 (UTC))

Infobox data

I added a reference for Taylor's date of death. Is there a known controversy or uncertainty about the date? Informed opinion will be welcome. - Astrochemist (talk) 01:53, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

• Brook Taylor, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. - ErikvanB (talk) 10:13, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
  • At the moment, there is an inconsistency in the article: infobox and intro: 29 December, text: 30 November (also mentions burial on 2 december). Most sources mention 29 December, some 30 November, but no idea who copied who... (also see nlwiki: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overleg_gebruiker:91.182.26.27 ) Toyo Mojito (talk) 12:39, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
    • The sentence could be changed into "[...] and died aged 46 at Somerset House" for the time being. ErikvanB (talk) 15:50, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Translation into Chinese Wikipedia

The 14:05, 16 January 2009 Astrochemist version of this article is translated into Chinese Wikipedia.--Wing (talk) 13:41, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

'Sir'

Is there any evidence he was either knighted, or a recipient of one of the honours that confer the honorific 'Sir'? It looks like there's some back-and-forth on the article. I removed it for now. Thanks, Antandrus (talk) 15:05, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

'Bad Writing'

The second section has some extremely weak syntax. Not sure how to post a tag 'to clean up', but someone should do so. For example "His marriage in 1721 with Miss Brydges of Wallington, Surrey, led to an estrangement from his father, which ended in 1723 after her death in giving birth to a son, who also died. The next two years were spent by him with his family at Bifrons, and in 1725 he married—this time with his father's approval—Sabetta Sawbridge of Olantigh, Kent, who also died in childbirth in 1730 ; in this case, however, his daughter, Elizabeth, survived. By the date of his father's death in 1729 he had inherited the Bifrons estate. As a mathematician, he was the only Englishman after Sir Isaac Newton andRoger 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 express his ideas fully and clearly."

This has bad grammar and non-sequential phrases. Aklebnik (talk) 15:39, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Date of death

When did Taylor die, on November 30 or December 29? The article states both dates. Dodekalinguaphoniker (talk) 22:42, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Assessment comment

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This article shares a lot in common with the NNDB article on Brook Taylor. Don't know if it's plagiarism or just that both share material from Encyclopedia Britannica.

Last edited at 00:08, 14 March 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 10:23, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Music

Taylor published on music theory and had extensive unpublished notes on music...this should make its way into the article at some point. Chubbles (talk) 23:05, 22 January 2018 (UTC)