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Richard Swineshead, a Common card
Richard Swineshead was an English mathematician, logician, and natural philosopher.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 42
- DEF
- 22
- Power
- 64
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,600
Power 64 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was perhaps the greatest of the Oxford Calculators of Merton College, where he was a fellow certainly by 1344 and possibly by 1340.
- His magnum opus was a series of treatises known as the Liber calculationum, written c. 1350, which earned him the nickname of The Calculator.
- Robert Burton wrote in The Anatomy of Melancholy that "Scaliger and Cardan admire Suisset the calculator, qui pene modum excessit humani ingenii [whose talents were almost superhuman]".
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Richard Swineshead article was read about 1,600 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 42 and blocks with 22: each hit it takes is cut by 9 %.
How to get Richard Swineshead
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Richard Swineshead (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Richard Swineshead, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
