Download or read book Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science written by Robert Lomas and published by Fair Winds Press (MA). This book was released on 2004 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of twelve men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature. At a time when superstition and magic governed reason,t