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With just one exception Stevin’s work in Mechanics is concerned only with statics, and he divides it into a theoretical part, the Art of Weighing (Weeghconst) and a practical one, the Practice of Weighing (Weeghdaet).
Cf. Principal Works, Vol. I, pp. 47–607.
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Dijksterhuis, E.J. (1970). Mechanics. In: Simon Stevin. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3207-0_4
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