Scientific Revolution Section 1: New Scientific Ideas - During the late 1500's and early 1600's, scholars and scientists increasingly realized the importance of experimentation and mathematics to scientific advances. This realization helped bring about a revolution in science. - The great Italian scientist Galileo stressed the need for carefully controlled experiments. In his research, Galileo used observation and mathematical analysis as he looked for cause and effect relationships among natural events. - He recognized that experimentation …showed first 75 words of 1060 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1060 total…the Scottish economist Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, the earliest formulation of classical economics. - The first systematic studies of electricity were conducted during the 1700's. In the American Colonies, Benjamin Franklin proved in 1752 that lightning is electricity when he performed his famous experiment with a flying kite during a thunderstorm. - In the late 1700's, two Italian scientists, Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta, made some of the first experiments with electric current.