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De mora luminis: Roemer's discovery 350 years later

Fabio Falchi, Riccardo Furgoni, Paolo Gattillo +1

The authors replicate Roemer's 1676 measurement of the speed of light using telescopes of comparable resolution to those of the 17th century, obtaining values within about 10 % of…