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BC MS Lt q 35, f.1r: The opening of Brook Taylor's poem

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To a young lady who commanded a mathematician to write verses, by Brook Taylor

Taylor, Brook (1685-1731)

c.1710

Love poem in praise of the beauty and virtues of a young lady, expressed in mathematical and scientific terms, warning her to resist the advances of all the planets but Saturn

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