Accademia del Cimento

The Accademia del Cimento (Academy of Experiment), a early scientific society, was founded in Florence 1657 by students of Galileo, Evangelista Torricelli and Vincenzo Viviani. The academy was funded by the Medici. Giovanni Borelli and Nicolaus Steno were also members. The tenets of the society included¹:

Experimentation (about everything, in this early period of science)
Avoidance of speculation
Creation of laboratory instruments
Standards of measurement
A publication Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Academia del cimento Florence 1666, later translated into Latin 1731. It became the standard laboratory manual in the 1700s.

The academy was discontinued after ten years.

Notes

Note 1: pp. 17-18, Leonard C. Bruno 1989, The Landmarks of Science. First editions from the collections of the Library of Congress. ISBN 0-8160-2137-6

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