Collegium Curiosum

The Collegium Curiosum or Collegium Experimentale was a twenty-member scientific society founded by Johann Sturm, a professor at the University of Altdorf,^[1] in 1672.^[2] It was based on the model of the Florentine Accademia del Cimento.^[2] Sturm published two volumes of the academy's proceedings in Nuremberg, under the title Collegium Experimentale sive Curiosum (1676 and 1685).^[2] It was as much a private club as a formal academy,^[3] and a lot of the time seems to have been spent with Sturm demonstrating experiments to the other members.^[1]

An illustration of an early magic lantern from the *Collegium Experimentale sive Curiosum* (1676)

Proceedings

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

References

^ ^a ^b Thomas Ahnert (2002). "The Culture of Experimentalism in the Holy Roman Empire: Johann Christoph Sturm (1635–1703) and the Collegium Experimentale". Sammelpunkt. Elektronisch archivierte Theorie. Archived from the original on 2020-06-06. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Academies: Scientific Academies". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. 1 (14 ed.). 1930. p. 81.
^ Neil Kenny, The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany (Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 184.

[Ahnert-1] Thomas Ahnert (2002). "The Culture of Experimentalism in the Holy Roman Empire: Johann Christoph Sturm (1635–1703) and the Collegium Experimentale". Sammelpunkt. Elektronisch archivierte Theorie. Archived from the original on 2020-06-06. Retrieved 2020-05-10.

[EB14-2] "Academies: Scientific Academies". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. 1 (14 ed.). 1930. p. 81.

[3] Neil Kenny, The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany (Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 184.

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