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Petrus Ramus, a Common card
Petrus Ramus was a French humanist, logician, and educational reformer.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 128
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 14,000
Power 128 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Petrus Ramus quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Petrus Ramus card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
A ______ to Protestantism, he was a victim of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
Answer
convert. A convert to Protestantism, he was a victim of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. From the Petrus Ramus article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Robert Pressley. Robert Pressley 82 · Nino Schurter 75 · Paul Baran 71 · Petrus Ramus 67 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
William Smith. William Smith 21,000 · Petrus Ramus 14,000 · Håkon Wium Lie 10,000 · Grant Allen 7,700 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- A prominent and controversial academic and professor in Paris' College De France, Ramus became famous for his iconoclastic critiques of Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian.
- Ramus argued that dialectic should be removed or separated from the purview of rhetoric, a stance which significantly narrowed rhetorical theory's scope.
- A convert to Protestantism, he was a victim of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Petrus Ramus article was read about 14,000 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 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Petrus Ramus
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- Nino SchurterCommon · Society · ATK 75 DEF 53
- Rafael MatosCommon · Society · ATK 76 DEF 52
- Robert PressleyCommon · Society · ATK 82 DEF 46
- Terry DischingerCommon · Society · ATK 69 DEF 59
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Petrus Ramus (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Rijksmuseum, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
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