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To my surprise I have found that the property of the gyroscope which I am about to describe, although perfectly elementary, appears to be little known to either physicists or astronomers. Neither is it mentioned in the text-books so far as I am aware. That it has a very important bearing on the mechanism of the solar system has been shown in some of my earlier papers, but the laws which govern the rotation and the simple facts themselves seem to be so little understood that I have thought it worth while to explain them more fully in this place.
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PICKERING, W. A Little Known Property of the Gyroscope. Nature 71, 608–609 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/071608b0
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