About Sidney Gerald Burrard

Sir Sidney Gerald Burrard, 7th Baronet, was a British army officer who served as Surveyor General of India and played a major role in the Great Trigonometrical Survey's work in the Himalayas and identified the source of errors resulting from the displacement of the plumbline by the gravitational attraction of the mountains.

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Surveyor General of India

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