it is claimed that the work of john amos comenius and samuel hartlib on early education in england were strongly influenced by rosicrucian ideas, but this has not been proven, and it appears unlikely except in the similarity in their anti-catholic views and emphasis on science education. rosicrucianism is also said to have been influential at the time when operative masonry (a guild of artisans) was being transformed to speculative masonry—freemasonry—which was a social fraternity, which also originally promoted the scientific and educative view of comenius, hartlib, isaac newton and francis bacon.