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Denmark: Ole Roemer (1644-1710) at work in his observatory studying the stars, from Basis Astronomiae sive Astronomiae pars Mechanica< / i> by Peder Nielsen Horrebow (Havniae,1735)

Ole Christensen Rømer (25 September 1644 – 19 September 1710) was a Danish astronomer who in 1676 made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
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Denmark: Ole Roemer (1644-1710) at work in his observatory studying the stars, from Basis Astronomiae sive Astronomiae pars Mechanica< / i> by Peder Nielsen Horrebow (Havniae,1735)
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Ole Christensen Rømer (25 September 1644 – 19 September 1710) was a Danish astronomer who in 1676 made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
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