Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c27.2
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c27.2
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BURROW, Reuben (1747-92), mathematician, author of Chapters III and V, was born 30th December 1747, near Leeds. He showed a taste for mathematics, and after various jobs, was appointed around 1770, assistant to Maskelyne, then astronomer-royal, at Greenwich. In 1782 he accepted an appointment in India, procured by his patron, Col. Henry Watson, for many years chief engineer in Bengal. In Bengal he was appointed mathematical teacher of the engineers’ corps and was connected with the proposed Trignometrical Survey of Bengal. He was one of the first members of the Asiatic Society. He died at Buxor on 7th June 1792.