51.0% of matchups won
304 matchups
Elo 1592
tracked 2025/05/28 → 2026/09/07
mission: Promote heliocentrism and science · Astronomy and economics · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing50%
picked as helping wellbeing
248 matchups
57%
picked as hurting wellbeing
56 matchups
On balance people see it as hurting.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar people
01
Galileo Galilei
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70.4% wins · Italian polymath (1564–1642)
02
Johannes Kepler
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38.0% wins · German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
03
Ptolemy
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48.6% wins · 2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
04
Isaac Newton
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64.8% wins · English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
05
Giordano Bruno
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44.8% wins · Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
Known for
- Heliocentric theory development
- Published De revolutionibus
- Quantity theory of money
- Gresham's law formulation
- Significant astronomical observations
Based on 304 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/09/07. Full rankings ·
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