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William Cullen, an Uncommon card
William Cullen was a Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist from Hamilton, Scotland, who also served as a professor at the Edinburgh Medical School.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 67
- Power
- 138
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 18,000
Power 138 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
William Cullen quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the William Cullen card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
He also assisted in obtaining a royal charter for the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, resulting in the formation of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in ____.
Answer
1780s. He also assisted in obtaining a royal charter for the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, resulting in the formation of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. From the William Cullen article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Spanish literature. Spanish literature 79 · Graph isomorphism problem 74 · William Cullen 71 · Namık Kemal 66 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.
- Cullen was a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment: He was David Hume's physician, and was friends with Joseph Black, Henry Home, Adam Ferguson, John Millar, and Adam Smith, among others.
- He was president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and first physician to the king in Scotland.
- He also assisted in obtaining a royal charter for the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, resulting in the formation of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The William Cullen article was read about 18,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 67: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get William Cullen
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, William Cullen (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : David Martin (1737 - 1797), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
