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
- 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.
- "Academies: Scientific Academies". Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1 (14 ed.). 1930. p. 81.
- Neil Kenny, The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany (Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 184.
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