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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, an Uncommon card
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is a 1632 book by Galileo Galilei comparing Nicolaus Copernicus's heliocentric system model with Ptolemy's geocentric model.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 57
- Power
- 129
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 36,000
Power 129 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Written in Italian, it was ______ into Latin as Systema cosmicum in 1635 by Matthias Bernegger.
Answer
translated. Written in Italian, it was translated into Latin as Systema cosmicum in 1635 by Matthias Bernegger. From the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is a ____ book by Galileo Galilei comparing Nicolaus Copernicus's heliocentric system model with Ptolemy's geocentric model.
Answer
1630s. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is a 1632 book by Galileo Galilei comparing Nicolaus Copernicus's heliocentric system model with Ptolemy's geocentric model. From the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Natasha Zvereva. Natasha Zvereva 85 · Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems 72 · Petersen graph 68 · Albert Brudzewski 65 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.
- Written in Italian, it was translated into Latin as Systema cosmicum in 1635 by Matthias Bernegger.
- The book was dedicated to Galileo's patron, Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who received the first printed copy on February 22, 1632.
- It consists of four Socratic dialogues between the Copernican Salviati, the educated layman Sagredo and the geocentrist Simplicio.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems article was read about 36,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 57: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Giovanni Battista Landini, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
