In 1599, when Galileo was starting to make a name for himself at the University of Padua, a young Cambridge graduate, William Harvey (1578–1657), arrived there to study medicine. Padua was one of the two most prestigious medical faculties in Europe (the other being Leiden), and known to admit non-Catholic students, providing them with special colleges, so an Englishman aspiring for a medical career in the metropolis was all but obliged to make the journey.
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