Ole Rømer

Ole Christensen Rømer (September 25, 1644, Aarhus – September 19, 1710, Copenhagen) was a Danish astronomer who made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light (1676).

External links

• Roemer, Ole Christensen (at the Galileo Project)
• ROEMER, Démonstration touchant le mouvement de la lumière (Rømer's 1676 paper, in French, as ordinary text)
• A Demonstration concerning the Motion of Light, communicated from Paris (Rømer's 1676 paper, in English and French, as bitmap images)
• Rømer and the Doppler Principle. (further details on Rømer's result)
• Fysikeren Ole Rømer (in Danish)

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