University of Padua (Università degli Studi di Padova)

Founded in 1222 (when a group of students and professors left Bologna seeking greater academic freedom), the University of Padua is one of the world's oldest universities. Approximately 64,000 students. **GALILEO GALILEI taught here from 1592 to 1610** — 18 years he later described as 'the eighteen happiest years of my life'. **In Padua he developed his telescope observations** that overturned Aristotelian astronomy. Padua's anatomical theatre (1594) was the world's first permanent anatomy lecture theatre — a foundational space in the development of evidence-based medicine.

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