The Invisible College - Brossura

Lomas, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0552158372 ISBN 13: 9780552158374

Casa editrice: Corgi, 2009

Riassunto

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.

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Descrizione del libro:

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

L'autore:

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Corgi
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0552158372
• ISBN 13: 9780552158374
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 496