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Considering how few, and how simple the Principles are, upon which the whole Art of <small>PERSPECTIVE</small> depends, and withal how useful, nay ho… - Brook Taylor
" "Considering how few, and how simple the Principles are, upon which the whole Art of <small>PERSPECTIVE</small> depends, and withal how useful, nay how absolutely necessary this Art is to all forts of Designing; I have often wonder'd, that it has still been left in so low a degree of Perfection, as it is found to be, in the Books that have been hitherto wrote upon it.
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About 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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