Tops and Gyroscopes Author:W. W. Campbell "Everyone can spin a simple wooden toy top. But why the top spins is a question that embodies far-reaching scientific tenets in its answer. From this "why" has evolved the gyroscope. — ...This book tells the astonishing story of the gyroscope and how it evolved from a study of a simple top. To Galileo and Newton as well as to the physical scienti... more »sts of today this problem of moving and spinning objects has been of utmost importance..."« less