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Strategies & Market Trends : Fibonacci Dynamics

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To: sammy™ -_- who wrote (176)3/11/2007 12:13:39 AM
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Beyond Ordinary Least Square [OLS]
Historical detour: origin of OLS in astrometry

Ushered in by Tycho Brache (1546-1601), the era of accurate astrometry (measurement of positions of things in the sky) was well underway by the 1700s. In 1740 the astronomer Jacques Cassini compiled the below list of observations of the tilt of the Earth's equator compared to the plane of the Earth's orbit about the Sun ("obliquity of ecliptic"). The list seems to demonstrate that the obliquity slowly has decreased from almost 24° to about 23½° during the nearly 2,000 years covered.

Date Obliquity

140 B.C. 23.853 °
140 23.856
390 A.D. 23.500
880 23.583
1070 23.567
1300 23.533
1460 23.500
1500 23.473
1500 23.488
1570 23.499
1570 23.525
1600 23.517
1656 23.484
1672 23.482
1738 23.472
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