Can vacuum permittivity be derived without using the speed of light?

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Is it possible to derive the value for vacuum permittivity(εo) without using the speed of light.?
 
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What do you mean by derive? How can you derive a fundamental constant? Does the definition count? Where Coulomb constant=1/4πε0
 

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