Smithsonian contributions to knowledge.
Subtitle: Vol. 19
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9781418189150
Subjects: History / United States / General
First sentence: IN a paper published in the American Journal of Science, in 1857, and in Barnard's American Journal of Education [No. 9] of the same year, I remarked:-The analogy between the minute motions of the gyroscope and that grand phenomenon exhibited in the heavens, the 'precession of the equinoxes,' is often remarked.