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Roemer, Ole Christensen (at the Galileo Project) Démonstration touchant le mouvement de la lumière (The 1676 paper on the speed of light, in old French, as ordinary text) Rømer and the Doppler Principle. (further details on Rømer's result) (in Danish) Fysikeren Ole Rømer (in Danish) Kroppedal Museum
Ole Rømer (1644–1710) became a government official in his native Denmark after his discovery of the speed of light (1676). The engraving is probably posthumous. Rømer's determination of the speed of light was the demonstration in 1676 that light has an apprehensible, measurable speed and so does not travel instantaneously.
The Rømer scale (Danish pronunciation: [ˈʁœˀmɐ]; notated as °Rø), also known as Romer or Roemer, is a temperature scale named after the Danish astronomer Ole Christensen Rømer, who developed it for his own use in around 1702.
See also Danish rute (rod). mil – Danish mile.Towards the end of the 17th century, Ole Rømer, Gerardus Mercator and other contemporaries of the great Dutch cartographer Thisus began following Claudius Ptolemy in connecting the mile to the great circle of the earth, and Roemer defined it as 12,000 alen.
From May 1, 1683, King Christian V of Denmark introduced an office to oversee weights and measures, a justervæsen, to be led by Ole Rømer.The definition of the alen was set to 2 Rhine feet.
Graham Potter says he is looking forward to a "big challenge" after being confirmed as the new West Ham manager. The 49-year-old has signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with the London club, who ...
She was the daughter of Otte Matsson Rømer (1437-1508) and Ingeborg Lydersdatter Struds von Bergen (c. 1451–1512). Lady Ingerd's parents had her marry Lord Nils Henriksson, whose family also had some claim to Austrått Manor in the Trondheimsfjord.
Graham Potter will be appointed as West Ham's new manager after the club sacked Julen Lopetegui. Former Brighton and Chelsea boss Potter has agreed a two-and-a-half-year deal with the Hammers and ...