DATE
INVESTIGATOR
METHOD
ESTIMATE (km/s)
1667
Galileo Galilei
Covered Lanterns
333.5
1676
Ole Roemer
Jupiter's moon
220 000
1849
Armand Fizeau
Rotating Wheel
315 000
1862
Leon Foucault
Rotating Mirror
298 000
1879
Albert Michelson
Rotating Mirror
299 910
1926
Albert Michelson
Rotating Mirror(interferometer)
299 798
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Christiaan Huygens
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