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Wilhelm Schickard

Computer Architecture

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Computing Atlas. "Wilhelm Schickard." Accessed August 31, 2026. https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/wilhelm-schickard.

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Computing Atlas. (n.d.). Wilhelm Schickard. Retrieved August 31, 2026, from https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/wilhelm-schickard

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@misc{computingatlas-wilhelm-schickard,
  author = {Computing Atlas},
  title = {Wilhelm Schickard},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/wilhelm-schickard},
  note = {Accessed August 31, 2026}
}

Wilhelm Schickard was a German professor of Hebrew and astronomy who became famous in the second half of the 20th century after Franz Hammer, a biographer 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 letters Schickard wrote to Kepler in 1623 and 1624.

Facts

Birth Year

1592 1

Birth Date

1592-04-22 1

Death Year

1635 1

Death Date

1635-10-24 1

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1. Wikipedia: Wilhelm Schickard

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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.

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