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Charles Marie de La Condamine, a Common card
Charles Marie de La Condamine was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 33
- Power
- 93
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,900
Power 93 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Charles Marie de La Condamine quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Charles Marie de La Condamine card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Furthermore he was a contributor to the ______.
Answer
Encyclopédie. Furthermore he was a contributor to the Encyclopédie. From the Charles Marie de La Condamine article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Charles Marie de La Condamine. Charles Marie de La Condamine 60 · Eduard Buchner 57 · Thomas Dörflein 54 · Willis C. Hawley 49 ATK in WikiCards.
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 spent ten years in territory which is now Ecuador, measuring the length of a degree of latitude at the equator and preparing the first map of the Amazon region based on astro-geodetic observations.
- Furthermore he was a contributor to the Encyclopédie.
- He was a member of the French Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris, the Royal Society of London, and the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg, the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna in Bologna, and the academy of Cortona, as well as the Stanislas Academy in Nancy, France.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Charles Marie de La Condamine article was read about 9,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 33: each hit it takes is cut by 13 %.
How to get Charles Marie de La Condamine
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Charles Marie de La Condamine (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Pierre-Philippe Choffard / After Charles-Nicolas Cochin, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
