Just released: Desaguliers in Edinburgh, 1721: a critical re-examination of the actual events For more than one hundred years various myths have been propounded and accepted, in both masonic and academic circles, about what actually happened when the Revd. Dr. John Theophilus Desaguliers DCL, FRS (1683-1744), a Past Grand Master of the English freemasons, visited the famous ancient Lodge of Edinburgh in August 1721. Some have claimed that he introduced