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University of Padua

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The University of Padua is a public research university in Italy, founded in 1222 and among the oldest in the world. Galileo Galilei taught mathematics there from 1592 to 1610, and Andreas Vesalius and William Harvey were also connected with its medical school, which made Padua a leading center of anatomy. The atlas links scientists to it where their cited articles say they studied or taught there.

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University of Padua
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Source Andreas Vesalius (Wikipedia)
Source Galileo Galilei (Wikipedia)
Source Gerolamo Cardano, Wikipedia
Source Nicolas Steno (Wikipedia)
Source Nicolaus Copernicus (Wikipedia)
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is an Italian public research university in Padua, Italy
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It was founded in 1222
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Nicolaus Copernicus (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Nicolaus Copernicus, University of Padua, 1501-1503
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This time he studied at the University of Padua, famous as a seat of medical learning, and-except for a brief visit to Ferrara in May-June 1503 to pass examinations for, and receive, his doctorate in canon law-he remained at Padua from fall 1501 to summer 1503.
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Nicolas Steno (Wikipedia)
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After travelling through France, he settled in Italy in 1666, at first as professor of anatomy at the University of Padua and then in Florence as in-house physician of Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinando II de' Medici, who supported arts and science and whom Steensen had met in Pisa.
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Gerolamo Cardano, Wikipedia
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Cardano resumed his studies at the University of Padua, where he graduated with a doctorate in medicine in 1525.
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Andreas Vesalius (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: Andreas Vesalius, Infobox: workplaces
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University of Padua (1537-1542)
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Galileo Galilei (Wikipedia)
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University of Pisa, University of Padua
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