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Uncommon card · Science
Denis Papin, an Uncommon card
Denis Papin FRS was a French Huguenot physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker, the steam engine, the centrifugal pump, and a submersible boat.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 46
- Power
- 105
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 20,000
Power 105 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He started his career in his native France, before emigrating to London, in 1675, and rising to being on the staff of the Royal Society, in 1684.
- As a Huguenot, he was stripped of his French citizenship, and denied a return to France after Louis XIV invoked the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685.
- From 1687-1707 he held a position as a mathematics professor of the University of Marburg, Germany, before returning to England the last 5 years of his life.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Denis Papin article was read about 20,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 46: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Denis Papin
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Denis Papin (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Johann Peter Engelhard, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
