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Al-Battani, an Uncommon card
Al-Battani, archaically Latinized as Albategnius, was an Arab Muslim astronomer, astrologer, geographer and mathematician, who lived and worked for most of his life at Raqqa, now in Syria.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 171
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 22,000
Power 171 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Al-Battani quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Al-Battani card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Al-Battānī's writings became instrumental in the development of ______ and astronomy in the west.
Answer
science. Al-Battānī's writings became instrumental in the development of science and astronomy in the west. From the Al-Battani article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Computational chemistry. Computational chemistry 32,000 · Al-Battani 22,000 · Leroy Hood 17,000 · William Oughtred 9,800 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is considered to be one of the greatest and most famous of the astronomers of the medieval Islamic world.
- Al-Battānī's writings became instrumental in the development of science and astronomy in the west.
- His Kitāb az-Zīj aṣ-Ṣābi’, is the earliest extant zīj made in the Ptolemaic tradition that is hardly influenced by Hindu or Sasanian astronomy.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Al-Battani article was read about 22,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Al-Battani
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Al-Battani (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : unknown, copied from a work by Al-Battani, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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