Talk:Professor Calculus

Suggested timeline
A table or graphic showing all of the books in which Calculus appears would be a great way to succinctly summarize his importance to the series.Brooklynbiology (talk) 15:08, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

Untitled
IIRC, the Professor's reference to himself as a former savateur is in the opening pages of Tintin:Flight 714. As i don't have a copy myself, perhaps someone else could check this to get the requested citation! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.20.244.207 (talk • contribs) 08:41, 20 June 2006
 * I have the UK Magnet edition from 1986(?), the remark is found at page 7

-...I've been an all-round sportsman in my time, though you many not think so now. -Tennis, swimming, rugger, soccer, fencing, skating... I did them all in my young days. Not forgetting the ring, too: wrestling, boxing and even savate... -Savate?... (Laszlo Carreidas) -No, no, no! I said savate, French boxing... Stars above! They make me laugh nowadays with their judo and their karate. Savate! That was real fighting!... -Using your feet as well as your fists!...  I was a champion... unbeatable... just you watch this... -HUP! 惑乱 分からん 17:04, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Full name
Isn't the professors full name "Cuffbert Calculas"Yourdeadin 12:45, 8 September 2007 (UTC)Yourdeadin

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Adding a new name in Indonesian
This figure is now got a new name since this series published by a new publisher, PT. Gramedia Pustaka Utama. The previous one, PT. Indira, no longer has a right to licence and published this series in Indonesian. Within the previous one, his name is just exactly the same as the English version, Profesor Cuthbert Calculus.

NaidNdeso (talk) 07:53, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Tournesol
Tournesol also means litmus, as in litmus test or litmus paper. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xyzt1234 (talk • contribs) 11:13, 28 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Given that Tournesol is an all-round scientist, this is surely not coincidental. Litmus is made from lichen extracts, not sunflowers. A medieval precursor to litmus paper used an extract from Chrozophora tinctoria, which wasn't a sunflower either, but its common names are dyer's croton, giradol, or... turnsole! So Turnsole might have been a more faithful English name for the character than Calculus. The French still call lichen-based litmus papier de tournesol "turnsole paper" - so the French joke, is along the lines of, this is the guy litmus paper is named for! Other than in secondary schools, litmus is not used in modern labs. Either a pH electrode or is used or else pH paper that uses strips with various dyes, each strip having a precise point of colour-change, the strips collectively covering a wide range of pH values. 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:3453:7AF8:7F0:AFDF (talk) 17:52, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Calculus' first appearance?
It says his first appearance was in Red Rackham's Treasure. But wasn't it in The Shooting Star? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Magamma (talk • contribs) 08:26, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
 * No, Calculus does not appear in that book. It features a fine international selection of goateed scientists, but he is not one of them. Mezigue (talk) 09:52, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Colour TV
Tournesol's colour TV system does work, but it is rather unstable and gives the audience a headache. 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:3453:7AF8:7F0:AFDF (talk) 17:53, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Invention subheading
Rather than having his inventions in the Character History section, it may be more sensible and logical to have a separate sub heading for Calculus’s inventions and more in-depth description, reserving the Character History for his contribution to the plots of the comics V.L.N. (talk) 20:13, 22 July 2023 (UTC)