The Irish standard., 1895-05-11
VBRB GREAT N|'V Hl|'l0l IN !. |
Facts Concerning Discoveries 4
Monks Of 4 r1echanical !.
Turn Of Mind.
An interesting and vaiuabie Chg
ter From Father yaE1sn,s
..ai.
..Church and Science
A Number of Great Inventors w
Never Invented, Find Their
Way Into Print

] Way Into Print
According to the Pilot this is VII
happened not long ago in one Of tbe p'i
lie schools OF the Dorchester distrtc'
Boston:
| "Who was the inventor Of the eotte
gin?'' asked a. teacher Of oae oz h
Catholic pupils. -.
/! ELI Whitney" responded tia child
| ''What was he in. relision?'
"a Protestant.
| "Of course he was. A Catholic nsv
| invented anything.
Evidently the non~sectarian teach
who perpetrated the ;tboTe was very
lnocent of history. From Father zahn
work on '"The Church and Science
take the following extract which telsa
{. few of the things which Catholics
j invent. 1T would De we'll for out reads
to obtain this book sJr themselves, ar
| moreover, to see that it is pat on tI
shelves Of the pubic libraries
The most important inventicL, ssuu 81
one that aided mos. in the diIusion
knowledge was that Of printing, due
Gutenberg, in 14a6. This invenEion|
! which. in the hands OF Giitenberg 81
! his cO-laborers, Faust aad Schcener, N
| the marvel of the world at the time,
| account of the rapidity and periecsf !
with which books were multiplied oy
! 1r1eans--an ticipated by nearly q cau.N
| the much rauded reformation OF Luths4
! And all necessary preparations had bed
I made for this glorious Invention. ca
! ton paper was ready and had been It's |
! in Italy since the Tenth century. an
| linen paper, accoTd2ug to Falla11, w |
invented in the century following. VI
!; first newspaper was published liz Ventd
in 1862
| The first printing press intEcluced VI
| to England was set Np by Caytoi ~ u
in Westminster Abbey. The the'l rs,I
| ing abbot, John s:.staey, read laeF Er4
| proof Of the English translation Of "a
Bible eyer printed IN Great Britain m
the first printer lived and died in III
| abbey.
The first printing r,ress used in Ams
! ica was brought from Spain, about 154I
! Mexico, the Jealous and enlightened I'D
Fray Juan Zumarraga. "Tne first vic
roy OF New Spain. Mer. doza,'' we quoi
from the learned Bishop Montez de l,a
helped the archbishop In his gioriolI
work the celeheated editor Crolnberge|
! of Seville, furnished the materials I'D
the men; John Pablos was tbs name
the typographer CD ,seu t. cross the Al
1cy nd nj a. auf n m
doctrine, in both The Spanish and Aztfj
languages, was the first. book ever /
sued by the press in the row World"
Clocks may be looked upon as I'll
joint production cf three mon1g. as eaG|
had more or less to do with their con
struction. These monks were tho islus|
trious Gerbert, Pacitico, Of Verona, an|
Abbot William, of Ejrschaa, Gerzaard
Watches were inverted rs early as th|
fifteenth century, since NurembnrE wa
celebrated for those manufactured therj
about the third quarter OF the centur.
Spectacles were first constructed I,yGfSa1
v!no, an Italian monk, In 1885. s;o1n|
years before Roger Bacon, III reserrinI
to: plano-ccnyex lens, had spoken d
the benefit Of 1t to old. men and TO tlosI
who have weak eyes in reading snl
viewing small objects. ~ l'S$
Schwartz, a monk of Cologne, first hi
pared gunpowder banut 1896 Firearml
were introduced before the end Of fh|
century. The ern onleter was invent
ed by Santorie of italy early In the Sea
enteenth century. A. few years aftezl
ward the mercurial barometer YVES id
vented by "a counfrynnan of his, Evarl
gelista TQrricelh. The camera obscura|
that All-important instrument in pho|
tography, was invented some time dur|
ing the Sixteenth century by the foundeI
OF the first scientific society, Giamhattik|
ta della Porta. The first photograph
were taken in 1899 by. two Frenchn1en--
5Ntepcea and Daguerre. The magic LAM
tern, an instrument that has Of 1ail
years proved Of such value in the hand
OF scientists and educators, was the in|
ventton OF the learned Jesuit. Fathel
Kirsher, who died In 1850.
Flavio diS Gioja5 invented the marinr'|
compass early in the Fourteenth soersl
tury. But the navigator needed s0nleI
thing more, and this somethfg vas ft,i|
nished him In 1869 by a pupil OF tai
University 0f9s Louyaitl. Gerard Mercato.
the inventor OF the chart thai bears Li||
name Such is the suitableness,' e it Sha|
been said stofS Mercator,'s projection I'd
the use ofs the mafiner's compass ti,a
the latter seems to have been an incoraI
plete discovery until the announcsmen enj
of the former, = The Portuguese werd
the first to use the astrolabe in nayigaI
tiOn, and the celebrated mat athematicia
Pedro Munez, in his book on navigation
published ih 1881, :was the first til ddsrec1
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