Lets see the free masons...they started with the construction of the pyramids. Basically using a square and plumb bob and string they set stone so precise that today a piece of paper will not fit in the gap. They did this with geometry, before they knew what geometry was. It was a secret that they kept. Many years later the free mason were men who believed in a scientific answer to the world around them, but lived in a Pope controlled world. Filled with religious answers to all phenomena. To think or speak of science was to be labeled a heretic. Copernicus was, Galileo was, Newton was. The other thing that the free mason had in common were that they were alchemists. Alchemists were the only form of science at the time. Eventually it became chemistry, and physics. And further evolved into things like medicine, biology, ect.