Choose one document listed below (the complete documents are available on SharedFiles). After reading the document, respond to the corresponding questions. A good essay will properly respond to the questions and demonstrate a greater understanding of the document. Students should also try and provide some perspective of their own—DO NOT simply provide a summary obtained from other sources. Any quotations taken from the documents can be cited parenthetically.

Francis Bacon, “Attack on Authority and Advocacy of Experimental Science”
• What intellectual attitude did Francis Bacon believe obstructed new scientific discoveries in his time?
• What method of scientific inquiry did Bacon advocate?
• What connections can you make between this document and the present?

René Descartes, Discourse on Method
• Why was Descartes critical of the learning of his day?
• What are the implications of Descartes’ famous words: “I think, therefore I am.” (Cogito ergo sum/Je pense dunc je suis.)
• What connections can you make between this document and the present?

please use this boos as a source : .. Robin W. Winks & Thomas E. Kaiser. Europe, 1648-1815: From the Old Regime to the Age of
Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004

dont use other sources