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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Speed. I haz it.

—devadutta @ 23:59

If E to F is earth’s orbit and B is Jupiter, this dude used measurements w.r.t E, B, D and C to quantitatively estimate something for the first time. What?

Ole_roemer317px-Roemer

p.s. D-C is guessable.

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Ole Rømer, quantitatively measuring the speed of light!