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Wilhelm Schickard, a Common card
Wilhelm Schickard was a German professor of Hebrew and astronomy who became famous in the second part of the 20th century after Franz Hammer, a biographer of Johannes Kepler, claimed that the drawings of a calculating clock, predating the public release of Pascal's calculator by twenty years, had been discovered in…
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 50
- Power
- 112
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 8,500
Power 112 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Wilhelm Schickard quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Wilhelm Schickard card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Schickard's machine was the first of several designs of ______ entry calculating machines in the 17th century.
Answer
direct. Schickard's machine was the first of several designs of direct entry calculating machines in the 17th century. From the Wilhelm Schickard article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Phil Anderson. Phil Anderson 69 · Magnus Manske 65 · Wilhelm Schickard 62 · Rifa'a at-Tahtawi 58 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Hammer asserted that because these letters had been lost for three hundred years, Blaise Pascal had been called and celebrated as the inventor of the mechanical calculator in error during all this time.
- After careful examination it was found that Schickard's drawings had been published at least once per century starting from 1718, that his machine was not complete and required additional wheels and springs and that it was designed around a single tooth carry mechanism that didn't work properly when used in calculating clocks.
- Schickard's machine was the first of several designs of direct entry calculating machines in the 17th century.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Wilhelm Schickard article was read about 8,500 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 50: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Wilhelm Schickard
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Wilhelm Schickard (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Conrad Melperger, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
