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...
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electronic calculator and the digital computer. Surviving notes from Wilhelm Schickard in 1623 reveal that he designed and had built the earliest of the...
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Schickard is a lunar impact crater of the form called a walled plain. It lies in the southwest sector of the Moon, near the lunar limb. As a result, the...
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even before the development of sophisticated computing equipment. Wilhelm Schickard designed and constructed the first working mechanical calculator in...
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biographer of Johannes Kepler, announced the discovery of two letters that Wilhelm Schickard had written to his friend Johannes Kepler in 1623 and 1624 which contain...
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seen in American office settings by the year 2000. Blaise Pascal and Wilhelm Schickard were the two original inventors of the mechanical calculator in 1642...
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Waldorfschule Vocational schools (Berufsschulen) Gewerbliche Schule Wilhelm-Schickard-Schule Mathilde-Weber-Schule Bildungs- und Technologiezentrum Rudolph...
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by inventors and scientists in making calculating tools. In 1623 Wilhelm Schickard designed a calculating machine as a commission for Johannes Kepler...
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The Renaissance saw the invention of the mechanical calculator by Wilhelm Schickard in 1623, and later by Blaise Pascal in 1642. A device that was at...
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astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Riglon by German astronomer Wilhelm Schickard, and Rigel Algeuze or Algibbar by English scholar Edmund Chilmead...
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I of Castile (d. 1504) 1518 – Antoine of Navarre (d. 1562) 1592 – Wilhelm Schickard, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1635) 1610 – Pope Alexander...
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September 16 – Metius, Dutch mathematician (born 1571) October 22 – Wilhelm Schickard, German professor of Hebrew and Astronomy (born 1592) John Mason,...
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Abitur in 1991. Ettrich studied for his MSc in Computer Science at the Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Science at the University of Tübingen. He currently...
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seeding by dry ice Bela Schick (1877–1967), Hungary – diphtheria test Wilhelm Schickard (1592–1635), Germany – mechanical calculator Hugo Schiff (1834–1915)...
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century. Erotomania is first mentioned in a psychiatric treatise. Wilhelm Schickard draws a calculating clock on a letter to Kepler. This will be the...
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1623: Mechanical calculator by Wilhelm Schickard Late 17th century: Calculus and Leibniz's notation by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1673–1676: Leibniz formula...
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the first to document the use of gears for mechanical calculation. Wilhelm Schickard, a German polymath, designed a calculating machine in 1623 which combined...
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Francesco Maria Brancaccio, Catholic cardinal (d. 1675) April 22 – Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor (d. 1635) April 24 Marcos Ramírez de Prado y Ovando...
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Russell & Norvig 2021, p. 8. McCorduck 2004, pp. 41–42. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von (1920). The Early Mathematical Manuscripts of Leibniz: Translated...
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Johann Ulrich Steigleder, German composer (b. 1593) October 24 – Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor (b. 1592) October 31 – Maria Amalia of Nassau-Dillenburg...
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of the Sun is published in Latin (as Civitas Solis) in Frankfurt. Wilhelm Schickard devizes a Calculating Clock, an early mechanical calculator. Zildjian...
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Francesco Maria Brancaccio, Catholic cardinal (d. 1675) April 22 – Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor (d. 1635) April 24 Marcos Ramírez de Prado y Ovando...
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Johann Ulrich Steigleder, German composer (b. 1593) October 24 – Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor (b. 1592) October 31 – Maria Amalia of Nassau-Dillenburg...
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of the Sun is published in Latin (as Civitas Solis) in Frankfurt. Wilhelm Schickard devizes a Calculating Clock, an early mechanical calculator. Zildjian...
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October 2023. Seck, Friedrich (1981). Wissenschaftsgeschichte um Wilhelm Schickard: Vorträge bei dem Symposion der Universität Tübingen im 500. Jahr...
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based on logarithms as developed by John Napier. 1623 German polymath Wilhelm Schickard drew a device that he called a calculating clock on two letters that...
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and descriptions from 1957, of the calculating machine, built by Wilhelm Schickard. Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff was an aristocrat and a member of the...
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translated Philip Sidney's Arcadia brought him into contact with Wilhelm Schickard (1592–1635), who had invented a calculating machine in 1623. Philip...
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primality testing, computational complexity theory Jonathan Schaeffer Wilhelm Schickard – one of the first calculating machines Jürgen Schmidhuber – artificial...
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pension Traube. 19 Before the war events of 1634 and 1635, astronomer Wilhelm Schickard worked here. It is thought that his wife and some of his children...
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