Write a 4-5 page double-spaced typed paper (in a 12 point font) discussing an idea from the Principe book and comparing Principe's example with an outside past or present-day example. Note that you are required to use this structure: half your paper explaining specifics from the book and half based on research into a material not covered by the book on a related topic, past or present.  You must discuss the method or character or philosophical underpinnings or world view of science during the scientific revolution, not just facts and specific theories. General paper instructions are here: http://pammack.sites.clemson.edu/lec392/paperinstructions.html

You may use APA, MLA or Chicago format for your references.  Online sources of all types are appropriate, if used critically and referenced appropriately.  Make sure to reread the discussion of academic integrity in the syllabus.

Ideas for topics:

• impact of Arab scholarship on the early modern era vs. how it developed in the Arab world
• Arab scholarship played an important role in Europe causing new ways of thinking that led to the scientific revolution
• what happened in the Arab world--how much did those new ways of thinking develop there? when and why did the Arab world get left behind?
  
• the relationship between science and religion then and now
• make that more specific
• how religion was used in explaining the physical world
• how religious authorities react to new science, and why?
• how the religious beliefs of scientists affect their work
• use specific historical examples if your topic is broader or focus on two case studies (eg. the Pope and Galileo and the Pope and climate change)

• https://scholar.google.com/
• http://clemson.libguides.com/az.php? and then choose JSTOR
• you may want to look at opinion, not just fact, a regular google search experimenting with different search words is usually best

you are not looking for facts, you are looking for the perspectives of different historians or different groups in society and then ask why?