Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The statics of rigid bodies.

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Examples

  • These tomes impart an enormous amount of information about medieval astronomy, astrology, tidal theory, and geostatics, again presenting many sources for the first time in the modern era.

    Pierre Duhem Ariew, Roger 2007

  • As expected, he covered seventeenth-century statics, but he also returned to the middle ages, spending four chapters on geostatics, including the work of Albert of Saxony in the fourteenth century.

    Pierre Duhem Ariew, Roger 2007

  • Opinions similar to those proposed by Beaugrand in his geostatics were held in Italy by Castelli, and in France by Pierre

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

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