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Dec 30, 1747 Shadwell, England, United Kingdom Died on 07 Jun 1792 (aged 44)
British mathematician and orientalist
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About Reuben Burrow
- For the outlaw see Rube Burrow Reuben Burrow (30 December 1747 – 7 June 1792) was an English mathematician, surveyor and orientalist.
- Initially a teacher, he was appointed assistant to Sir Nevil Maskelyne, then astronomer-royal, at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and was involved in the Schiehallion experiment.
- He later conducted research in India, teaching himself Sanskrit and becoming one of the first members of the Asiatic Society.
- He was the first to measure the length of a degree of an arc of longitude along the Tropic of Cancer.
- His other major achievements included a study of Indian mathematics although he earned a reputation for being rude and unpolished amid the leading figures in science who came mostly from the upper-class.
- One commentator called him "an able mathematician but a most vulgar and scurrilous dog."
