Abstract

The paper lists all the predictions and observations of eclipses of Jupiter's satellites 1668-1678 and compares them with modern computations of the these eclipses by J. H. Lieske. We discuss Roemer's method that led to his discovery of the retardment of light and finally we shall interpret Roemer's calculations.

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