Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science

Description: 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 o ... (more)

Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Release date: 22 November 2015
ISBN-10 : 1500842834 | ISBN-13: 9781500842833

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