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Descripción: Institute and Museum of the History of Science.
«Founded in 1657 by Prince Leopoldo and the Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinando II de' Medici, the Accademia del Cimento [Academy of Experiment] was the first scientific society in Europe, preceding the Royal Society of London and the Académie des Sciences of Paris by a few years. The foundation of the Accademia del Cimento institutionalized an informal tradition of experimentation started in the Court of Ferdinando II in the mid 1640s. The declared purpose of the Academy was the development and diffusion of Galilean experimental methodology.»