List of Famous people with last name Schickard

Wilhelm Schickard

First Name Wilhelm

Last Name Schickard

Born on April 22, 1592

Died on October 24, 1635 (aged 43)

Born in Germany, Baden-Württemberg

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 two unknown letters written by Schickard to Johannes Kepler in 1623 and 1624.

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