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Dioscorides, an Uncommon card
Pedanius Dioscorides, "the father of pharmacognosy", was a Greek pharmacologist, physician, botanist, and author of De materia medica, a 5-volume Greek encyclopedic pharmacopeia on herbal medicine and related medicinal substances, that was widely read for more than 1,500 years.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 57
- Power
- 119
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 28,000
Power 119 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Dioscorides quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Dioscorides card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
For almost two millennia Dioscorides was regarded as the most ______ writer on plants and plant drugs.
Answer
prominent. For almost two millennia Dioscorides was regarded as the most prominent writer on plants and plant drugs. From the Dioscorides article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations. Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations 69 · Mary Archer 66 · Dioscorides 62 · Ball gown 56 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.
- For almost two millennia Dioscorides was regarded as the most prominent writer on plants and plant drugs.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Dioscorides article was read about 28,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 57: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Dioscorides
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- Johannes Diderik van der WaalsUncommon · Science · ATK 67 DEF 52
- Owen DaleUncommon · Society · ATK 66 DEF 53
- Ümit ÖzdağUncommon · History · ATK 68 DEF 51
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Dioscorides (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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