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The Advice to Hartlib, a Common card
The Advice to Hartlib was a treatise on education, written by the English economist and philosopher Sir William Petty in 1647 as a letter to Samuel Hartlib. and published in 1647/8.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 48
- Power
- 114
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 420
Power 114 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
The Advice to Hartlib quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the The Advice to Hartlib card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It was the first ______ work by Petty and covers a total of 31 pages.
Answer
printed. It was the first printed work by Petty and covers a total of 31 pages. From the The Advice to Hartlib article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
William Petty was educated in France and in Holland, and returned to England in ____, to study medicine at Oxford University.
Answer
1640s. William Petty was educated in France and in Holland, and returned to England in 1646, to study medicine at Oxford University. From the The Advice to Hartlib article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
The Advice to Hartlib. The Advice to Hartlib 66 · Bad Krozingen–Münstertal railway 62 · Masajiro Furuya 59 · GIVU effect 56 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- It was the first printed work by Petty and covers a total of 31 pages.
- William Petty was educated in France and in Holland, and returned to England in 1646, to study medicine at Oxford University.
- By that time he had close contacts with scientists like Thomas Hobbes.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The The Advice to Hartlib article was read about 420 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 48: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get The Advice to Hartlib
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, The Advice to Hartlib (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : William Petty, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
