George Darwin

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Figure

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

3

Influence

6

Resistance

3

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Sir George Howard Darwin (9 July 1845 – 7 December 1912) was an English barrister and astronomer, the second son and fifth child of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin. He is known for the harmonic analysis of the theory of tides as well as the discredited fission theory of the origin of the Moon.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “George Darwin”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: J. Russell & Sons (Photographic company), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.