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Uncommon card · Science
Jan Baptist van Helmont, an Uncommon card
Jan Baptist van Helmont was a chemist, physiologist, and physician from Brussels.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 66
- Power
- 133
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 23,000
Power 133 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and the rise of iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be "the founder of pneumatic chemistry".
- Van Helmont is remembered today largely for his 5-year willow tree experiment, his introduction of the word "gas" into the vocabulary of science, and his ideas on spontaneous generation.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jan Baptist van Helmont article was read about 23,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 66: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Jan Baptist van Helmont
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Jan Baptist van Helmont (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Mary Beale, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
