Romer

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Rö·mer

(rē'mĕr),
Paul H., German bacteriologist, 1876-1916. See: Römer test.
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Finding the Speed of Light: The 1676 Discovery that Dazzled the World is a children's picturebook about a momentous event in the history of science - when Ole Romer deduced that light traveled at a speed (and wasn't simply instantaneous) using little more than a home-built telescope and an ordinary clock.
Finding the Speed of Light
The first person to come close to working this out was a Danish fellow by the name of Ole Romer, who worked in the Royal Observatory in Paris in the 17th century.
History's mysteries: a light break of the law
Working at the Danish Uraniborg Observatory in 1671, Ole Romer decided to test Galileo's claim that telescopic observations of Jupiter's moons could be used to precisely keep time.
Chasing light speed: over the past few centuries, scientists have employed creative techniques for the difficult task of measuring the speed of light
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