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James Gregory, a Common card
James Gregory was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 46
- Power
- 111
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,700
Power 111 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- His surname is sometimes spelt as Gregorie, the original Scottish spelling.
- He described an early practical design for the reflecting telescope – the Gregorian telescope – and made advances in trigonometry, discovering infinite series representations for several trigonometric functions.
- In his book Geometriae Pars Universalis Gregory gave both the first published statement and proof of the fundamental theorem of the calculus, for which he was acknowledged by Isaac Barrow.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The James Gregory article was read about 9,700 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 46: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, James Gregory (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : John Scougal, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

