University of Tübingen scientist corresponded with astronomer Johannes Kepler – his invention fell into obscurity during the Thirty Years’ War A letter from Tübingen universal scientist Wilhelm ...
ON October 23, 1635, in the middle of the Thirty Years' War, Wilhelm Schickard, a famous German orientalist and astronomer, died of the plague at Tubingen. Schickard was born on April 22, 1592, at ...
The Aritmometer was the first device capable of performing mathematical calculations automatically. It was invented in 1623 by the German mathematician and philosopher Wilhelm Schickard. However, ...