Re: [HM] Paris math history sites?

David Fowler (david.fowler@warwick.ac.uk)
Fri, 29 Jan 1999 12:23:42 -0700

At 10:28 pm -0500 28/1/99, James A Landau wrote:

...
>- There exists in France a secret society known as the "Prieure de Sion". It
>claims to have been founded during the First Crusade and to have been the
>parent of the Knights Templars. (Other people claim it is an elaborate hoax.
>Take your pick). In the Bibliotheque National there is the Dossiers Secrets,
>deposited there by the Prieure de Sion, which among other things gives a
>complete list of the Grandmasters of the Prieure. Among them is one Isaac
>Newton. (Others include Leonardo da Vinci, Robert Boyle, Vcitor Hugo, and
>Claude Debussy).

Read - or, better, get someone else to read and tell you the story - the
amazing book

M Baigent, R Leigh, & H Lincoln, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, 1982,

and its sequels. I loved it!

David Fowler