The Invisible College: The Secret History of How the Freemasons Founded the Royal Society

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Robert Lomas

The Invisible College

The Secret History of How the Freemasons Founded the Royal Society

Robert Lomas

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English

Corgi
03 August 2009

History; Social & cultural history; Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge; Mathematics & Sciences; History of science

A secret society, Freemasons and the invention of modern science.

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.

By: Robert Lomas
Imprint: Corgi
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 346g
ISBN: 9780552158374
ISBN 10: 0552158372
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 03 August 2009
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.