A Demonstration concerning the Motion of Light,
communicated from Paris

by Olaf (Ole) Roemer
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
No. 136; June 25, 1677

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The diagram referred to in the translation appears on p. 234 of the French original, just below.

Demonstration tovchant le mouvement de la lumiere trouvé par M. Römer de l' Academie Royale des Sciences

December 7, 1676

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Recommended Reading

The Greatest Speed (1986). S.R. Filonovich. Mir Publishers: Moscow (Imported Publications, Inc., 320 W. Ohio Street, Chicage, Ill. 60610)

van Helden, Albert. "Roemer's Speed of Light." Journal for the History of Astronomy. vol 14, p. 137-141 (1983).

Olaf (Ole) Roemer (1644-1710)