Wilhelm Schickard

Wilhelm Schickard was a German professor of Hebrew and astronomy who became famous in the second part 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…

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Who was born first?

• Wilhelm Schickard and Johann Adam Schall von Bell were born the same year
• Wilhelm Schickard was born 1 year after Gérard Desargues
• Wilhelm Schickard was born 3 years before Albert Girard
• Wilhelm Schickard was born 4 years after Thomas Hobbes
• Wilhelm Schickard was born 4 years after Ole Worm

Timeline

1. Ole WormMay 13, 1588 – August 31, 1654
2. Thomas HobbesApril 5, 1588 – December 4, 1679
3. Gérard DesarguesFebruary 21, 1591 – October 9, 1661
4. Johann Adam Schall von BellMay 1, 1592 – August 15, 1666
5. Wilhelm Schickard (this page)April 22, 1592 – October 23, 1635
6. Albert GirardOctober 11, 1595 – December 8, 1632

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