Assertion: c's value | /r/HasProperty | 8 minutes
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text: In his 1704 book Opticks, Isaac Newton reported Rømer's calculations of the finite speed of light and gave a value of "seven or eight minutes" for the time taken for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth (the modern value is 8 minutes 19 seconds).
text: Isaac Newton (1643–1727) also accepted Rømer's idea; in his 1704 book Opticks giving a value of "seven or eight minutes" for light to travel from the Sun to Earth, closer to the true value (8 minutes 19 seconds) than Rømer's initial estimate of 11 minutes.