Multiple Choice
How much time elapsed from when Ole Rømer discovered that light did not travel at infinite speed to a time when the speed of light was first measured accurately?
A) No time at all-it was Rømer himself who measured this speed accurately!
B) 28 years
C) almost 1000 years
D) more than a century but less than two centuries
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