Portrait by an unknown artist of Grand Duke Ferdinand II, co-founder of the Accademia del Cimento with Prince Leopold de' Medici.

The Academy's members included: Lorenzo Magalotti - Vincenzo Viviani - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli - Carlo Renaldini - Francesco Redi - Alessandro Segni - Carlo Roberto Dati - the brothers Candido and Paolo del Buono - Alessandro Marsili - Antonio Oliva.

Some of the Academy's most famous correspondents were: Christiaan Huygens - Honoré Fabri - Robert Hooke - Gasparo Berti - Giovanni Domenico Cassini - Athanasius Kircher - Niels Steensen - Henry Oldenburg.