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rdf:type	Historical Figure
rdfs:label	Wilhelm Schickard
rdfs:comment	Wilhelm Schickard (22 April 1592 – 24 October 1635) was a German polymath who built one of the first calculating machines in 1623 twenty years before the Pascaline of Blaise Pascal. Unfortunately a fire destroyed the machine as it was being built in 1624 and Schickard decided to abandon his project. Unknown to the world for more than three centuries it was rediscovered in 1957.
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dcterms:subject	1632 Characters Historical Figures Died of Natural Causes (OTL) Germans Lutherans Scientists Scholars
type of appearance	Direct
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Timeline	OTL
Appearance	1634
Name	Wilhelm Schickard
Religion	Lutheran
Death	1635-10-24
Birth	1592-04-22
abstract	Wilhelm Schickard (22 April 1592 – 24 October 1635) was a German polymath who built one of the first calculating machines in 1623 twenty years before the Pascaline of Blaise Pascal. Unfortunately a fire destroyed the machine as it was being built in 1624 and Schickard decided to abandon his project. Unknown to the world for more than three centuries it was rediscovered in 1957.