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German astronomer, mathematician, and cartographer Wilhelm Schickard died #OTD in 1635.
He is often credited with creating one of the first mechanical calculators, sometimes referred to as the Schickard Calculator or Schickard's Calculating Clock. The machine was lost in a fire during the Thirty Years' War, but descriptions of it survived through correspondence with Kepler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Schickard
#astronomy #mathematics
He is often credited with creating one of the first mechanical calculators, sometimes referred to as the Schickard Calculator or Schickard's Calculating Clock. The machine was lost in a fire during the Thirty Years' War, but descriptions of it survived through correspondence with Kepler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Schickard
#astronomy #mathematics