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Common card · Science
Marinus of Tyre, a Common card
Marinus of Tyre was a Greek-speaking Phoenician Roman geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography and provided the underpinnings of Claudius Ptolemy's influential Geography.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 24
- Power
- 86
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 10,000
Power 86 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Marinus of Tyre was a Greek-speaking Phoenician Roman geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography and provided the underpinnings of Claudius Ptolemy's influential Geography.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Marinus of Tyre article was read about 10,000 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 24: each hit it takes is cut by 10 %.
How to get Marinus of Tyre
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Marinus of Tyre (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gerard Mercator (after Ptolemy), Gottfried Kempen (publisher), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
