Talk:Ole Rømer

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"close enough for government work", why did the government want to know the speed of light?

In Denmark his name is written "Ole Rømer". Seindal, Wednesday, April 3, 2002

My book explicitly says that he never calculated the speed of light and that the orbit of Earth and Jupiter was not known in his time. The article said differently. Lir 02:23 Nov 19, 2002 (UTC)