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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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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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22 April 1592
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24 October 1635
Drawings of a calculating clock
The machine was designed to assist in all the four basic functions of arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).
Affiliated With: University of Tübingen, Life
In 1613 he became a Lutheran minister continuing his work with the church until 1619 when he was appointed professor of Hebrew at the University of Tübingen.
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The Schickard machine was particularly notable for its integration of an ingenious system of rotated Napier's bones for multiplication with a first known design for an adding machine
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