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ASTRONOMY

Ole Rømer measures the Speed Of Light by observing Jupiter 's Moons

Foundation of the Royal Greenwich Observatory

PHYSICS

Ole Rømer discovers that light has a finite Speed

Edme Mariotte publishes an essay describing Boyle's Law , although following by 16 years Robert Boyle 's discovery of the same inverse relationship between the volume and pressure of a gas.

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John Ogilby , English map-maker (born 1600 )