Excerpt from Notes to Accompany a Facsimile Reproduction of the Diploma of Doctor of Medicine Granted by the University of Padua to William Harvey 1602: With a Translation Diploma of Doaor of Medicine conferred by the University of Padua upon William Harvey, possesses a historical and biographical interest which need hardly be emphasized, and has also some features worth noting from an archaeological point of view. The reader may naturally ask: Why has the Diploma this particular form? What is the meaning of the decoration? Who are the persons referred to in the Document? And so on, questions which these rough notes attempt, though very incompletely, to answer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.