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).
References
- R.J. MacKay and R.W. Oldford. "Scientific Method, Statistical Method and the Speed of Light", Statistical Science 15(3):254–278, 2000. (mostly about A.A. Michelson, but considers forerunners including Rømer. Also available on line: http://www.stats.uwaterloo.ca/~rwoldfor/papers/sci-method/paperrev)
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