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