hydrostatics
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The branch of science which relates to the pressure and equilibrium of nonelastic fluids, as water, mercury, etc.; the principles of statics applied to water and other liquids.
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climatology
kinematics
hydraulics
hydraulic
aerodynamics
hydrostatic
kinetics
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hydrography
electrostatics
aerology
hydrokinetic
hydrodynamics
aeromechanics
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Book 2 also discusses (in Section 5 ) hydrostatics and the properties of compressible fluids.
The combination of the dynamic approach with Archimedean hydrostatics gave birth to a direction in science which may be called medieval hydrodynamics.