Book description
In 1660 a small group of men, led by Sir Robert Moray, met in
London with a secret plan to reshape the world. They were members of
the 'Invisible College', better known today as the Freemasons
Emerging from the horrors of the Civil War, Britain was a
society torn apart by political difference, religious ferment and was
still immersed in medieval superstition. It was a country which burnt
alive at least one hundred elderly women a year on suspicion of
witchcraft. Yet this group, who had recently been sworn enemies,
managed to bridge their social and cultural differences to found a new
organization dedicated to the scientific study of nature, the Royal Society.
Robert Lomas reveals in compelling detail how the secret tenets and
traditions of the Freemasons laid the groundwork for a new revolution,
that gave the world modern, experimental science and founded what is
still, 350 years later, the pre-eminent scientific institution in the world.
Robert Lomas
has been a freemason since 1986 and is the author of a biography of
Nikola Tesla,
The Man Who Invented the Twetieth Century
, and co-auhtored two bestselling books of the history of Masonry,
The HIram Key
and
Uriel's Machine.
