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AMONG astronomers Ole Römer (1644-1710) occupies a peculiar position. He was held in high repute among contemporary men of science, as may be seen from the fact that Newton and he were the first astronomers to be enrolled among the eight foreign associates of the Paris Academy of Sciences, and were elected on the same day. To posterity he is known as the discoverer of the gradual propaǵation of light, and as the man who introduced the use of (if he did not invent) the transit instrument and the transit circle. And yet his published writings only fill a few pages, and the observations he made with instruments far superior in design to those of his time, were not printed, and nearly all of them perished not long after his death. There is, therefore, every reason to welcome the publication of his common-place book, which has been brought out just two hundred years after his death.
Ole Römer's Adversaria, med Understöttelse af Carlsbergfondet udgivne af det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab.
By Thyra Eibe Kirstine Meyer. Pp. v + 271. (Köbenhavn: Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri, 1910.)
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D., J. Ole Römer's Adversaria, med Understöttelse af Carlsbergfondet udgivne af det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab . Nature 86, 4 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086004a0
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