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Jeremiah Horrocks, a Common card
Jeremiah Horrocks, sometimes given as Jeremiah Horrox, was an English astronomer.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 58
- Power
- 124
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 7,800
Power 124 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit, and he was the only person to predict the transit of Venus of 1639, an event which he and his friend William Crabtree were the only two people to observe and record.
- Most remarkably, Horrocks correctly asserted that Jupiter was accelerating in its orbit while Saturn was slowing and interpreted this as due to mutual gravitational interaction, thereby demonstrating that gravity's actions were not limited to the Earth, Sun, and Moon.
- His early death and the chaos of the English Civil War nearly caused the loss to science of his treatise on the transit, Venus in sole visa, but for this and his other work he is acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of British astronomy.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jeremiah Horrocks article was read about 7,800 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 58: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Jeremiah Horrocks (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : William Richard Lavender (1877-1915), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
