Ole Rømer
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title:
Ole Rømer
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Ole Christensen Rømer was a Danish astronomer who, in 1676, first demonstrated that light travels at a finite speed. Rømer also invented the modern thermometer showing the temperature between two fixed points, namely the points at which water respectively boils and freezes. Rømer made his discovery regarding the speed of light while working at the Royal Observatory in Paris and studying Jupiter's moon Io. He estimated that light takes about 11 minutes to travel from the Sun to Earth. Using today
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Danish astronomer (1644–1710)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_R%C3%B8mer
date created:
2001-09-10T10:00:41Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T02:08:10Z
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