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]