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Book of Curiosities, a Common card
The Book of Curiosities is an anonymous 11th-century Arabic cosmography from Fatimid Egypt containing a series of early illustrated maps of the world and celestial diagrams of the universe and sky.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 57
- DEF
- 45
- Power
- 102
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 2,800
Power 102 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The Book of Curiosities contains 17 maps in total, 14 of which are extremely rare not only in Islamic cartography but also in greater medieval map history.
- The cosmography includes the earliest recorded map of Sicily as well as a rectangular world map, considered the earliest surviving map with a graphic scale.
- The autograph manuscript has not survived, but the Bodleian Library of Oxford University acquired one of the only known copies of the manuscript in 2002, making its contents widely accessible today due to its digitization.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Book of Curiosities article was read about 2,800 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 57 and blocks with 45: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Book of Curiosities
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Book of Curiosities (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
