Title: Confirmation in the Natural Sciences Guiding Question: To what extent was Galileo’s belief in the Copernican system justified at the time? Length: 1500 – 2000 words, not counting bibliography. Structure: Section A: Introductory paragraph; Section B: Summary of the Competing Theories (descriptive); Section C: Analysis; Section D: Conclusion; Section E: footnotes and bibliography. The Analysis section (C) should be longer than the previous two sections combined. It should consist largely of argument / counterargument / counter-counter argument.