Project Gutenberg 2010-11-09 Public domain in the USA. 219 Perry, John 1850 1920 Spinning Tops The "Operatives' Lecture" of the British Association Meeting at Leeds, 6th September, 1890 Produced by Chris Curnow, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Spinning Tops" by John Perry is a scientific publication written in the late 19th century. The work focuses on the mechanics and principles behind spinning bodies, particularly tops and gyrostats, exploring their behavior and the implications for understanding physical phenomena like gravity, rotation, and precession. At the start of the lecture, Perry sets the stage with an anecdote about a classroom discussion regarding the British Association meeting, leading into the importance of studying spinning tops in science. He emphasizes how understanding the behavior of tops can relate to broader concepts in mechanics and dynamics, such as the Earth's rotation and the principles governing stability and motion. Through engaging experiments and challenges to conventional thought, Perry illustrates the complexities and wonders of rotating bodies and their relevance to various scientific fields. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://book.klll.cc/files/34268/34268-h/images/front.jpg Reading ease score: 64.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Tops Gyroscopes Gyro compass QA Text Browsing: Science - Physics Browsing: Science - General Category: Science - Physics 251952 2025-06-14T06:04:03.971623 text/html 244826 2021-01-07T04:39:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 4102870 2021-01-07T04:39:01 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 4251505 2025-06-14T06:04:18.830485 application/epub+zip 4223964 2025-06-14T06:04:08.288574 application/epub+zip 153279 2025-06-14T06:04:05.732565 application/epub+zip 4315043 2025-06-14T06:04:25.822467 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 4266190 2025-06-14T06:04:14.796568 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 247063 2022-09-15T14:40:11.848148 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 190253 2025-06-14T06:04:02.744564 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 190083 2021-01-07T04:39:00 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 68868 2021-01-07T04:39:00 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 190144 2021-01-07T04:39:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 68860 2021-01-07T04:39:01 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20631 2025-06-14T06:04:26.071466 application/rdf+xml 11525 2025-06-14T06:04:06.309551 image/jpeg 3041 2025-06-14T06:04:06.019543 image/jpeg 4169241 2025-06-14T06:04:04.161566 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia