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Statics  n.  That branch of mechanics which treats of the equilibrium of forces, or relates to bodies as held at rest by the forces acting on them; distinguished from dynamics.
Social statics, the study of the conditions which concern the existence and permanence of the social state.






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"Statics" Quotes from Famous Books



... descendant of the Aristotelian conception of forms. In fact, it is hardly too much to say that the essential and fundamental difference between ancient and modern physical science lies in the ascertainment of the true laws of statics and dynamics in the course of the last three centuries; and in the invention of mathematical methods of dealing with all the consequences of these laws. The ultimate aim of modern physical science ...
— The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century • T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley



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