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Wilhelm Schickard
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Wilhelm Schickard (1592–1635) was a German mathematician, astronomer, orientalist, and computer scientist born in Herrenberg and educated at Bebenhausen Abbey and the University of Tübingen. He served as a professor at the University of Tübingen, where he also worked. His fields of work included mathematics and oriental studies, and he spoke Hebrew and Latin. Schickard was a Lutheran and studied under doctoral advisor Michael Maestlin.
Schickard authored 26 works, including *Problema Schuckardianum, seu, Trigono-circulare...*, *Wilhelmi Schickardi ... Succincta methodus mappas geographicas explosis consuetis hactenus erroribus construendi*, *Wilhelmi Schickardi Horologivm hebraeum*, *Wilhelmi Schickardi Hebr. ling. in Academiâ Tubingensi quondam professoris*, and *[Mishpaṭ ha-melekh]*. He died in Tübingen in 1635 from plague, a natural cause. His life and work are described in the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary*, the *Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron*, and the *Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1592
- Died
- 1635
- Works
- 26
Top works
- Problema Schuckardianum, seu, Trigono-circulare...
- Wilhelmi Schickardi ... Succincta methodus mappas geographicas explosis consuetis hactenus erroribus construendi
- Wilhelmi Schickardi Horologivm hebraeum
- Wilhelmi Schickardi Hebr. ling. in Academiâ Tubingensi quondam professoris, [Mishpaṭ ha-melekh]
- Wilhelmi Schickardi horologium ebræum
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Wilhelm
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Herrenberg
- Place of death
- Tübingen
- Occupation
- Hebraist
- Educated at
- Bebenhausen Abbey
- Employer
- University of Tübingen
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Doctoral advisor
- Michael Maestlin
- Field of work
- oriental studies
- Image
- C Melperger - Wilhelm Schickard 1632.jpg
- Work location
- Tübingen
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- Commons category
- Wilhelm Schickard
- date of birth
- 1592-04-22
- date of death
- 1635-10-23
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- plague
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- Wilhelm Schickard
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Wilhelmus Schickart (painted 1632)Wilhelm Schickard is holding a hand planetarium (or orrery) of his own invention. It was painted in 1632, 8 years after his last calculating clock drawing. Wilhelm Schickard (22 April 1592 – 24 October 1635) was a German professor of Hebrew and astronomy who became famous in the second part of the 20th century after Franz Hammer, a biographer (along with Max Caspar) of Johannes Kepler, claimed that the drawings of a calculating clock, predating the public release of Pascal's calculator by twenty years, had been discovered in two unknown letters written by Schickard to Johannes Kepler in 1623 and 1624.
Hammer asserted that because these letters had been lost for three hundred years, Blaise Pascal had been called and celebrated as the inventor of the mechanical calculator in error during all this time.
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