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)
[edit] Dubious
"Notable is also his definition of the new Danish mile. It was 24,000 Danish feet, which corresponds to 4 minutes of arc latitude, thus making navigation easier."
This is a conflation of the definitions of two different units of measure, the Danish land mile of 24,000 feet, and the geographical mile of four minutes of arc.
I'm pretty sure it hasn't always been mixed up this way in the article, so the first thing I'll do is check the history. Gene Nygaard (talk) 01:19, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
- My recollections were faulty, and this has been incorrect since User:Egil added it over 3 years 1 month ago in this edit. So there isn't any better version to revert to, it just needs fixing. Gene Nygaard (talk) 01:25, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
