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The Collegium Curiosum or Collegium Experimentale was a twenty-member
scientific society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and science. Membership may ...
founded by Johann Sturm, a professor at the
University of Altdorf The University of Altdorf () was a university in Altdorf bei Nürnberg, a small town outside the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg. It was founded in 1578 and received university privileges in 1622 and was closed in 1809 by Maximilian I Joseph of ...
, in 1672. It was based on the model of the Florentine Accademia del Cimento. Sturm published two volumes of the academy's proceedings in Nuremberg, under the title ''Collegium Experimentale sive Curiosum'' (1676 and 1685). It was as much a private club as a formal academy,Neil Kenny, ''The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany'' (Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 184. and a lot of the time seems to have been spent with Sturm demonstrating experiments to the other members.


Proceedings

* Volume 1 (1676), available online fro
Wolfenbütteler Digitale Bibliothek
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on Google Books
* Volume 2 (1685) available online fro
Sächsische Landesbibliothek — Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB)
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on Google Books


References

{{Authority control 1672 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire Scientific societies based in Germany