What is recorded here
John Perry is a birthplace in Garvagh, County Derry, Ireland. Perhaps the boy who grew there first measured distance with his own footsteps before he measured it with equations. Maybe the sea off that coast kept giving back numbers he could hear in the waves. Imagine him standing at the water's edge, young and certain, learning that the world could be known because it could be counted.
Why this person is known: Irish engineer and mathematician (1850–1920)
- Birthplace
- Garvagh
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