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, 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. It was as much a private club as a formal academy, and a lot of the time seems to have been spent with Sturm demonstrating experiments to the other members.