Science has always developed, among other things, thanks to scientific magazines which give opportunity to exchange thoughts between scientists. Starting from 1670 in Wrocław the first scientific magazine in the field of medicine and nature was published and it has a baroque title: “Miscellanea Curiosa Medico-Physica Academiae Naturae Curiosorum sive Ephemerides Germanicae” (“Collection of Interesting Dissertations in the field of Nature and Medicine of the Academy of Researchers of Nature or German Journal”). An initiator, editor and the first publisher of the magazine was a doctor from Wrocław – Philipp Jacob Sachs von Löwenheim. Thirty six authors from Europe sent one hundred sixty reports in the field of anatomy and pathology, physics and chemistry, botany and zoology to be included in the first edition. The periodical has been published since 1713 as a Wrocław periodical.
“Miscellanea Curiosa…” was a body of Academiae Naturae Curiosorum established in Schweinfurt in 1652. It was the first both on our continent and in the world, scientific association which gathered doctors, chemists and physicists. Their most important task was to “study the nature for the good of humanity” through experience, experiment and observation as the only sources of knowledge of the world and management of the nature. It was an active center of exchanging thoughts and education independent of universities. It still exists today as the German Academy of Natural Researchers “Leopoldina” – the National Academy of Sciences with their seat in Jena. Its members were among others Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein or Marie Curie.