Reuben 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, the fifth 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.''" Provided by Wikipedia
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by Burrow, Reuben
Published 1778
Published 1778
printed for T. Carnan, in St. Paul's Church Yard, who dispossessed the Stationers Company of the exclusive Privilege of Printing Almanack, which they had unjustly monopolized 170 Years
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by Burrow, Reuben
Published 1777
Published 1777
printed for T. Carnan, in St. Paul's Church Yard, who dispossessed the Stationers Company of the exclusive Privilege of Printing Almanacks, which they had unjustly monopolized 170 Years
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by Burrow, Reuben
Published 1776
Published 1776
printed for T. Carnan, in St. Paul's Church Yard, who dispossessed the Stationers Company of the exclusive Privilege of Printing Almanacks, which they had monopolized 170 Years, to the discouragement of Genius and the great Prejudice of the Booksellers throughout the kingdom, in Consequence of a Patent obtained from King James I. which his most Sacred Majesty had no Right to Grant
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by Burrow, Reuben
Published 1779
Published 1779
printed by C. Etherington, for the author; and sold by J. Nourse, and P. Elmsly; T. Carnan; and H. Payne
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by Burrow, Reuben
Published 1786
Published 1786
printed for the Company of Stationers, and sold by Robert Horsfield, at their Hall in Ludgate-Street