Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built library founded in 1687

Leighton Library has a 1646 edition of "Horologium hebraeum" by Wilhelm Schickard

Added at 06:18 on 22 April 2024

Leighton Library has a 1646 edition of "Horologium hebraeum" by German mathematician and professor of Hebrew and Astronomy Wilhelm Schickard who was born #OnThisDay 1592. He became famous in the 20th century after it was claimed that the drawings of a calculating clock, predating the public release of Pascal's calculator by twenty years, had been discovered in two unknown letters written by him in 1623-4