Carlisle Patriot November 18th 1843 Before the Reformation

Before the Reformation

THE CENTURY BEFORE THE REFORMATION. - It would be difficult to select from the pages of history, a century more rich in important inventions and discoveries than that immediately preceding the Reformation. The Route to India, by way of the Cape of Good Hope, was discovered by VASCO de GAMA, 1498.  The date of the discovery of the mariner's compass is uncertain, but it had become in general use by about the middle of the 15th century, and this leads us to notice that great event, which, without the compass, could never have taken place ....................... the discovery of America by COLUMBUS, 1493. The giant art of printing; LUTHER's great auxiliary in effecting the Reformation, was invented by GUTTENBURG, who had printed his Bible by 1455. And to this period also belongs the invention of clocks, gunpowder, fire arms, and paper making. Of the men of genius and learning who flourished about this time, we may enumerate MACHIAVEL, celebrated for his political writings;  ARIOSTO, the Italian poet;  SIR THOMAS MORE, and his friend, the learned ERASMUS;  COPERNICUS, the astronomer;  RABELAIS, the sitarist;  GAVIN DOUGLASS, the poet and divine;  and the Reformers, LUTHER,  MELANCTHON, and CALVIN. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

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