An astronomer from the 1600s or 1700s
How many answers can you give to “An astronomer from the 1600s or 1700s”? OnlyClick knows 52 of them, and rewards the ones other people miss. Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton are what most people type first, so they score the least. It is a fairly short list: only 5 answers sit in the two rarest tiers, so reaching one takes real knowledge.
The headline names go fast here, so it pays to remember what was catalogued long after them. You will find it in stage 19, “Stargazers Through Time”, of the Cosmos mission. The first stages of every mission are free, and later stages come with the full mission.
PLAY ONLYCLICK FREEThe most common answers
EVERYONE- Galileo Galilei
- Johannes Kepler
- Isaac Newton
- Edmond Halley
- William Herschel
- Charles Messier
- Christiaan Huygens
- Giovanni Cassini
- Caroline Herschel
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- John Flamsteed
- Jan Hevelius
- Ole Rømer
- Johann Bode
- Heinrich Olbers
These are the 15 answers we rate as most common, out of the 52 we know. They score the least. The other 37, including every rare one, stay inside the game.
How the 52 answers are spread
| EVERYONE | 8 |
| THE CROWD | 9 |
| SOME | 13 |
| A FEW | 17 |
| ONLY YOU | 5 |
The rarer your answer, the farther your rocket flies. Rarity is our own estimate of how few people would think of an answer. How to play.
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