A treatise on gyrostatics and rotational motion . All this is connected with a subject of very great interest, the equilibriumof spinning masses of liquid. It is of much importance in its bearing onthe genesis of the earth and moon: but for further information the readeris referred to Thomson and Taits Natural Philosophy^ and to memoirs by loincare and Sirdeoiire Darwin. 18. Gyrostatic experiments: gyrostat supported above universal flexunjoint. Double instability stabilised. Some of the usual gyrostatic experi-ments have already been described in 4 ... 7 above. We shall now describea few othe


A treatise on gyrostatics and rotational motion . All this is connected with a subject of very great interest, the equilibriumof spinning masses of liquid. It is of much importance in its bearing onthe genesis of the earth and moon: but for further information the readeris referred to Thomson and Taits Natural Philosophy^ and to memoirs by loincare and Sirdeoiire Darwin. 18. Gyrostatic experiments: gyrostat supported above universal flexunjoint. Double instability stabilised. Some of the usual gyrostatic experi-ments have already been described in 4 ... 7 above. We shall now describea few others of a somewhat more complicated kind, and indicate somespeculations which have been put forward, principally by Lord Kelvin, as [NTRODUCTORY 1!>


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