Topic: Choose either Galileo and Descartes or Galileo and Bacon or Descartes and Machiavelli and discuss the similarities and differences in their ideas and how they presented them as well as their use of the scientific method.

Order Description Some given instructions: "The essay should be guided by a thesis statement which controls your argument(s), which, in turn, should be supported and defended by evidence taken from the texts in the book: (E.E. Knoebel (ed.), Classics of Western Civilization: The Modern World Vol. III (4th Edition) (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich) and other secondary sources, if you choose). The essay should also present a critical analysis of the subject. Use whatever footnoting style you are accustomed to using as footnotes or endnotes to cite from the texts." I will require footnotes This essay is for a humanities course focusing on the roots of Western Culture. Therefore we focus on scientists and philosophes in this course.