Professor Wilhelm Schickard was a bonafide polymath, Professor of Mathematics, Aramaic, and Hebrew etc., educated at the University of Tübingen, and later returned to teach there. He was the main precurseur to the mechanical calculator and was an ordained Lutheran protestant minister.
- In the 1632 series: He was part of a network of scholars sharing news and intelligence by courier pigeons and USE telecommunications (radio or telegraph) which end up involved in the behind the scenes diplomacy of 1634: The Bavarian Crisis. Formerly a Professor of Mathematics at Tübingen University in Württemberg, reputed to be an excellent mathematician, Schickard in 1634 had a position with the United States of Europe in Magedeburg working for Secretary of State Duke Hermann of Hesse-Rotenberg, on mapping service projects for Gustavus Adolphus. He built some sort of "calculating box" used by astronomer Johannes Kepler when both were present at University of Tübingen (which ceased operation during the tumult of the Thirty Years' war), according to the authors Flint and DeMarce, accounting for his employment by the USE.
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