This assignment is for students who have missed a participation credit and need to make up that zero credit. A student may do this assignment only once.

Book Annotation: Annotate Setting Aside All Authority by C. M. Graney

Your professor is a Louisville area scientist! He writes and publishes a lot on astronomy. You have a textbook required for this class, The Known Universe, by your professor. The Known Universe is the class textbook and was written for this class. Setting Aside All Authority was not written for this class, but it was written in large part because of this class. Various concepts discussed in class are also explained in Setting Aside All Authority, and the book may be of help to students in the class in the same way as the various videos or web resources that are posted on the class web page may be of help.

But aside from just being a help, Setting Aside All Authority also documents what your professor has learned because of this class. And, since the book has been reviewed by scholars and published by a major academic press, it documents what your professor has learned that people outside of the class find to be interesting. Here is work from Jefferson Community & Technical College in general, and your class in particular, that the wider world finds interesting. Therefore, it may be of interest to students for that reason alone. And of course in reading Setting Aside All Authority students will learn more about science and how it works.

Your bonus assignment is to read Setting Aside All Authority and to annotate it thoroughly with your comments as you read. Here are the specifics:

q Put your name on the inside front cover, in blue pen only.

q You are to read and annotate Chapters 1-10 (you are not required to read and annotate the title page, table of contents, acknowledgements, end notes, etc.), plus one of the two Appendices. Regardless of which Appendix you choose, you only need to annotate Parts 1 & 3 of that Appendix, not Part 2 (which is in Latin in both cases).

q You must make your notes and comments in the margins or empty white space of the pages you are reading, in blue pen only. Notes and comments must pertain to the text of the page on which they are written. There are no “correct” or “incorrect” comments – they are just your thoughts on the material in the book – but they must pertain to the material. Adding a note that “LeBron James tops Michael Jordan”, for example, does not count.

q You should have a note or comment no less than every third page (and more is better). You are to mark up the book thoroughly with your notes and comments!

The JCTC book store often stocks a few copies of Setting Aside, and you can get it through bookstores and on-line sellers. Click here for direct information from the publisher.

Setting Aside All Authority:
Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo
by Christopher M. Graney
288 pages, 6.00 x 9.00
Paperback | 9780268029883 | April 2015

Note: A version of this make-up assignment is also found in the “B” Projects list. You may do this book annotation as either a make-up assignment OR a “B” project. You cannot count it for both

What to turn in:

· A copy of your completed Part 1 and Part 2 forms for the day of class participation that you are making up

· Your annotated book