Ole Christensen Römer
1644-1710
Danish Astronomer and Physicist
Ole Römer is famous for demonstrating the finite velocity of light. He produced various scientific instruments including an im...
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Ole Christensen Römer
1644-1710
Danish astronomer celebrated for demonstrating light's finite velocity. Römer noticed that the intervals between successive eclipses of Jupiter'...
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Olaus Roemer was born in Jutland on September 25, 1644. He studied astronomy at the University of Copenhagen and traveled to Paris where he found his calling in observing the motions of Jupiter's larg...
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Ole Christensen Römer
Olaus Roemer