Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science

by Robert Lomas

Overview

Until the sixteenth century, people believed in magic as a way of explaining how the world worked. Indeed Queen Elizabeth I had a court magician, John Dee. However during the reign of the Stuart kings magic was killed and science took its place. This change came about because a group of men met in London and decided to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature. Yet the men who founded this society in 1660 - including Robert Moray, Christopher Wren, Elias Ashmole and John Evelyn - were not only the first scientists but the last sorcerers, performing chemical experiments with powdered Unicorn horn...They had also fought on different sides in the Civil War. The story of how they came together comes as a revelation and will change your view of history and science forever.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781500842833
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	11/22/2015
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Dr Robert Lomas gained a B.Sc with first-class honors in electronics before earning a Ph.D in solid-state physics with a particular interest in developing the theory and practice of crystalline semi-conducting hetro-junction photo-optic devices. He went on to work on the development of the first micro-processor chips and missile guidance systems before specializing in software development for command and control systems used by the Fire, Ambulance and Rescue Services. He later developed expertise in data mining and data capture techniques which he used to improve the response times of emergency services control rooms. For a while he was a visiting lecturer at the Fire Service Staff College where he taught data-based command and control. In 1986, he became a Freemason and quickly established himself as a popular lecturer on Masonic history before co-authoring the international best-sellers The Hiram Key, The Second Messiah, Uriel's Machine and The Book of Hiram. Since 2000 he has been writing on his own and has a string of best-sellers including Turning the Hiram Key, Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science, and The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century. He also writes text books including Mastering Your Business Dissertation and specialist Masonic books such as The Secret Science of Masonic Initiation. His latest book is Freemasonry for Beginners He currently is a Visiting Fellow in Information Systems at Bradford University School of Management in Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	ix
	Prologue A Cold Winter's Day in Late November	1
Chapter 1	A World before Science	11
Chapter 2	The Founders of the Royal Society	25
Chapter 3	Conflicting Stories	51
Chapter 4	The Patron Saint of Frozen Chickens	71
Chapter 5	An Alien Monarch	81
Chapter 6	The Life and Soul of the Royal Society	103
Chapter 7	Fellow Number Thirty-seven	139
Chapter 8	The Restoration	165
Chapter 9	The Royal Charters	193
Chapter 10	Early Works	217
Chapter 11	Gossips, Spies and French Mistresses	247
Chapter 12	A Legend of Gracious and Kindly Kings	259
Chapter 13	Sir Robert's Heritage	287
	Postscript: Life, the Universe and a Theory of Everything	299
Appendix	The Scientific Secrets of the Craft	309
	Endnotes	323
	Bibliography	337
	Timeline	345
	Index	351