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John Taylor was born in 1752 at Fintry, Stirlingshire, Scotland, the son of Andrew and Janet Buchan Taylor. He was a merchant for a while at Glasgow and was living in New York City as a merchant by 1777. He returned to Glasgow and married Margaret Scott there in 1783. They had nine children, 1784-1797. John retured to New New York in 1784; Margaret stayed in Scotland until after the the birth of their first child and followed him in 1785. Margaret Taylor died in 1797 and he married 2) a widow, Jane Davis, in 1799. She died in 1823. He married 3) Eliza Avery in 1826. They had a daughter, born in 1827, who died young. John Taylor died at New York in 1833.
An account of the creation of new forms of life and intelligence in cybernetics, artificial life, and artificial intelligence that analyzes both the similarities and the differences among these sciences in actualizing life.The Allure of Machinic Life
Set against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade, this book traces the development, exhibition and final disposition of one of J.M.W. Turner's greatest and most memorable paintings. Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901) in Great Britain produced unprecedented wealth and luxury. For artists and writers this period was particularly noteworthy in that it gave them the opportunity to both praise their country and criticize its overreaching ambition. At the forefront of these artists and writers were men like J.M.W. Turner, Dickens, Thackeray, Tennyson, and John Ruskin, who created some of the most enduring works of art while exposing many of the social evils of their native land. The book also ...