W. S. ; Wilhelm Schickhardt / Schickhart / Schickhard / Schickart / Schickardt ;
1592 in Herrenberg
1636
Tübingen
joiner Lukas Schickard I (1511-1585) and Margreta, born Homel (mother)
draughtsman and engraver Lukas Schickard (1560-1602) (brother) ; architect and inventor Heinrich Schickardt (1558-1634) (brother) ; ...
monastery school in Bebenhausen; academic studies at Univ. Tübingen, is taught mathematics & astronomy by Prof. Michael Mästlin
Germany
Prof. of Hebrew and astronomy at the University of Tübingen ; Wirtembergiae Tabula VIII, Continens praefecturas quinque iuxta Schonbuchiam sylvam vel Nicri et Ammerae confluentem circiter sitos, nempe Tubingensem, Bebinhusanam, Herrenbergicam, Wiltpergensem et Nagoltanam una cum vicino comitatu Zollerense et magna parte ditionis Hohenbergicae inferioris (before 1635) ; Johannes Kepler (1571-1630): Epitome astronomiae copernicaniae (1617-1621) & Harmonics Mundi (1619) ;
duce Friedrich of Württemberg (1557-1608) ; duce Johann Friedrich of Württemberg (1582-1628) ; Swabian noble families ;
draughtsman and engraver Lukas Schickard II (1560-1602) (brother) ; mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) ;
astronomical, mathematical, physical, technical, cartographical, and topographical drawing, woodcutting, and copperplate engraving ;
Siegmund Günther: W.S, ADB 31 (1890): 174f. ; Hermann Grees: Der Schönbuch als Naturraum & Kulturlandschaft, in: Ingrid Gamer-Wallert & Sönke Lorenz (eds.): Der Schönbuch. Mensch & Wald in Geschichte & Gegenwart (Tübingen 1999, 16-33: 19) ; Seck, Friedrich: W.S. 1592-1635. Astronom, Geograph, Orientalist, Erfinder der Rechenmaschine (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag & Tübingen: Mohr, 1978: 347f.) ; Friedrich Seck: Kepler & Tübingen (Tübingen 1971: 41-2) ; Isabel Pantin: Kepler's epitome - new images for an innovative book, in: Transmitting Knowledge (Oxford 2006: 224ff.) ; Grees 2002: 18f. & 25f. ; Focus 1993: 537f.;
Further relatives: painter Hans Schickard (1512-1585) (uncle), Tübingen ; painter Apelles Schickhardt (1580-1610) (cousin) ; painter Jakob Züberlein (1556-1607) (stepfather of Apelles Schickhardt), teacher in Bebenhausen and astronomer Wilhelm Gmelin. See also: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/epitome-astronomiae-copernicanae-1619-science-source.html. Mainly a German prof. of Hebrew & Astronomy at Univ. Tübingen; on the side also aiding colleagues with woodcut illustration.
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