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Alexis Clairaut, a Common card
Alexis Claude Clairaut was a French mathematician, astronomer, and physicist.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 127
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 11,000
Power 127 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Alexis Clairaut quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Alexis Clairaut card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In that context, Clairaut deduced what is now known as Clairaut's ______.
Answer
theorem. In that context, Clairaut deduced what is now known as Clairaut's theorem. From the Alexis Clairaut article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
He was a prominent Newtonian whose work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of ____.
Answer
1680s. He was a prominent Newtonian whose work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687. From the Alexis Clairaut article on Wikipedia.
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 was a prominent Newtonian whose work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
- Clairaut was one of the key figures in the expedition to the Lapland that helped to confirm Newton's deduction of the figure of the Earth.
- In that context, Clairaut deduced what is now known as Clairaut's theorem.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alexis Clairaut article was read about 11,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alexis Clairaut (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Louis-Jacques Cathelin / After Charles-Nicolas Cochin, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
