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    Ole Christensen Rømer (Danish: [ˈoːlə ˈʁœˀmɐ]; 25 September 1644 – 19 September 1710) was a Danish astronomer who, in 1676, made the first measurement...
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  • Roemer, is a temperature scale named after the Danish astronomer Ole Christensen Rømer, who developed for his own use in around 1702. It is based on the...
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    thermometer (switching to mercury) and a scale both developed by Ole Christensen Rømer. Fahrenheit's scale is still in use in the United States for non-scientific...
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    Fahrenheit produced a mercury thermometer and scale, both developed by Ole Christensen Rømer. Fahrenheit's scale is still in use, alongside the Celsius and Kelvin...
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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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    similar in 1638. In 1701 Ole Christensen Rømer effectively invented the thermometer by adding a temperature scale (see Rømer scale) to the thermoscope...
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  • fluid. 1701 — Ole Christensen Rømer made one of the first practical thermometers. As a temperature indicator it used red wine. (Rømer scale), The temperature...
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  • first experimental determination of the speed of light was made by Ole Christensen Rømer. It may seem that this experiment measures the time for light to...
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    assumes that the speed of light is finite, based on a report by Ole Christensen Rømer in 1677 but which Huygens is presumed to have already believed....
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  • Romero (Argentina, (1964–) Roger of Hereford (England, c. 1176–1198) Ole Christensen Rømer (Denmark, 1644–1710) Otto A. Rosenberger (Germany, 1800–1890) Svein...
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