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    Ole Christensen Rømer (Danish: [ˈoːlə ˈʁœˀmɐ]; 25 September 1644 – 19 September 1710) was a Danish astronomer who, in 1676, first demonstrated that light...
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    Danish astronomer Ole Rømer, who was working at the Royal Observatory in Paris at the time. By timing the eclipses of Jupiter's moon Io, Rømer estimated that...
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    Ole Rømer Observatory (Danish: Ole Rømer Observatoriet) is an astronomical observatory and museum, built in 1911 and located in Aarhus, Denmark. It is...
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  • Romer v. Evans, a United States Supreme Court case dealing with civil rights and state laws Rømer scale, a disused temperature scale named after Ole Rømer...
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  • officer and politician Ole Rømer Aagaard Sandberg (1865–1925) and Hanna Krag (1870–1963). He was a paternal grandson of Ole Rømer Sandberg and maternal...
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  • evidence as to why Rømer assigned the value of 7.5 degrees to water's freezing point. One proposed explanation: 367  is that Rømer initially intended...
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    measurements to measure large distances to extremely high precision. Ole Rømer first demonstrated in 1676 that light does not travel instantaneously...
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  • led by the royal mathematician Ole Rømer, who established a national system of weights and measures on May 1, 1683. Rømer's system, which he updated in 1698...
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  • paternal grandson of Ole Rømer Sandberg, and thus a great-grandson of priest Christian Juell Sandberg, great-grandnephew of Ole Rømer Aagaard Sandberg (1811–1883)...
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    and poet Nicholas Steno (1638–1696), a pioneer in anatomy and geology Ole Rømer (1644–1710), Danish astronomer. He made the first quantitative measurements...
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  • Geneeskunst ("Daybreak, or the New Rise of Medicine"). 25 September – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer who makes the first quantitative measurements of the...
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    Copenhagen and astronomer, Ole Rømer, and was introduced to Rømer's temperature scale and his methods for making thermometers. Rømer told Fahrenheit that demand...
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  • rider Ole Birk Olesen (born 1972), Danish politician Ole Qvist, Danish goalkeeper Ole Ritter, Danish racing cyclist Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer Ole O. Sageng...
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  • Greenhouses. Built in 1911, the Ole Rømer Observatory (56°07′40″N 10°11′36″E / 56.1277°N 10.1933°E / 56.1277; 10.1933 (Ole Rømer Observatory)) is an astronomical...
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    the northeast section of the Moon. It was named after Danish astronomer Ole Rømer. It lies in the southwestern part of the mountainous region named the...
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    of light to a better precision than the previous value determined by Ole Rømer in 1676. He used a beam of light reflected from a mirror 8633 meters away...
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  • July 25 – Gottfried Kirch, German astronomer (born 1639) September 23 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (born 1644) Jean de Fontaney, French Jesuit mathematician...
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    training. On the maternal side he was a nephew of Ole Rømer Aagaard Sandberg, and thus a grandnephew of Ole Rømer Aagaard Sandberg, Sr. On the paternal side...
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  • Bullialdus suggests an inverse-square gravitational force law 1676 — Ole Rømer demonstrates that light has a finite speed 1684 — Isaac Newton writes...
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    most of the medieval capital. The King had been persuaded by astronomer Ole Rømer (1644–1710) to introduce the Gregorian calendar in Denmark-Norway in 1700...
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  • computed as equivalent to about 7,421.5 metres (24,349 ft) by the astronomer Ole Rømer.) The geographical mile is closely related to the nautical mile, which...
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    Herman Boerhaave, his scale was built on the work of Ole Rømer, whom he had met earlier. In Rømer scale, brine freezes at zero, water freezes and melts...
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  • Kiønig (1771–1856), Norwegian judge Ole Rømer Aagaard Sandberg (1888–1975), Norwegian military officer Ole Rømer Aagaard Sandberg (1900–1985), Norwegian...
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    measure the speed of light was conducted by Ole Rømer, a Danish physicist, in 1676. Using a telescope, Rømer observed the motions of Jupiter and one of...
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  • Helge Refn (1985) Poul Reichhardt (1986 semi-postal) Poul Reumert (2000) Ole Rømer (1944) Borchardt Rollufse (1980) Jørgen Ryg (1999) Peter Christian Skovgaard...
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    Earth, these events would occur about 17 minutes later than expected. Ole Rømer deduced that light does not travel instantaneously (a conclusion that...
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  • existence in white light of a mixture of distinct coloured rays. 1676 – Ole Rømer measures the speed of light for the first time. 1687 – Isaac Newton publishes...
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  • was employed as an assistant with the Ole Rømer Observatory in Aarhus, later as head of section. The Ole Rømer Observatory had been established in 1911;...
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  • Huygens (1629–1695) Robert Hooke (1635–1703) Isaac Newton (1643–1727) Ole Rømer (1644–1710) Stephen Gray (1666–1736) Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) Benjamin...
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    astronomer, first 'Astronomer Royal' in Berlin (b. 1639) September 19 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644) September 22 – Jacques-René de Brisay de...
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