{"id":373,"date":"2019-04-15T08:20:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=373"},"modified":"2019-04-14T14:54:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T21:54:09","slug":"finding-the-speed-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/finding-the-speed-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the Speed of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Finding the Speed of Light: The 1676 Discovery that Dazzled the World<\/a>
\nby Mark Weston (Author) and Rebecca Evans (Illustrator)<\/p>\n

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Booktalk:<\/strong> More than two centuries before Einstein, using a crude telescope and a mechanical timepiece, Danish astronomer Ole Romer measured the speed of light with astounding accuracy. How was he able to do this when most scientists didn\u2019t even believe that light traveled? Like many paradigm-shattering discoveries, Romer\u2019s was accidental. Night after night he was timing the disappearance and reappearance of Jupiter\u2019s moon Io behind the huge, distant planet. Eventually he realized that the discrepancies in his measurements could have only one explanation: Light had a speed, and it took longer to reach Earth when Earth was farther from Jupiter. All he needed then to calculate light\u2019s speed was some fancy geometry.<\/p>\n

Snippet:<\/strong> At night, Ole hurried up to his roof to look through his telescope. He had built its tubes, handles, and magnifying glasses himself with money given to him by the king. when he was finished, the telescope was ten feet long. On cloudy nights, all he could see was the Cathedral of Notre Dame a mile away. But when the sky was clear, Ole could see thousands of stars. <\/p>\n

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It’s Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2019 Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finding the Speed of Light: The 1676 Discovery that Dazzled the World by Mark Weston (Author) and Rebecca Evans (Illustrator) Booktalk: More than two centuries before Einstein, using a crude telescope and a mechanical timepiece, Danish astronomer Ole Romer measured the speed of light with astounding accuracy. How was he able to do this when … <\/p>\n

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