Wilhelm Schickard [Schickart]
Astronomer and Mathematician
The University of Tübingen writes about one of its famous scholars:
The ambidextrous philosopher
"Hebraist, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor of the calculating machine — Wilhelm Schickard (1592–1635) was not only an outstanding scholar of his time but also a gifted engineer."
As an engineer, he created the first calculating machine for his friend Johannes Kepler,
"... an intellectually and technically unique achievement of its time, which was long forgotten due to the catastrophe of the Thirty Years' War."
He succumbed to the plague in the midst of the Thirty Years' War.
