Henry Perigal, Jr. FRAS MRI was a British stockbroker and amateur mathematician, known for his dissection-based proof of the Pythagorean theorem and for his unorthodox belief that the moon does not rotate.
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About this person
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1801 to 1898 · aged 97
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