The branch of physics which deals with the motions of material bodies, including kinematics, dynamics, and statics. When the laws of mechanics are applied to living structures, as to the locomotor system, it is referred to as BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA. (From Dorland, 28th ed)
    

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An introduction to natural philosophy. Or, Philosophical lectures read in the University of Oxford anno Dom. 1700. To which are added the demonstrations of Monsieur Huygens's Theorems, concerning the centrifugal force and circular motion / By John Keill ... Translated from the last edition of the Latin.

The Mechanics' Institute and School of Science and Art, Keighley, Yorkshire. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin after Lockwood and Mawson.

The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing various methods of study and teaching with a lettered key. Line engraving.

Mechanics: Atwood's machine with pulleys and calibrated dials. Engraving.

Mechanics: mills using water-power in various ways. Coloured engraving, 1816, by J. Pass.

The mathematical principles of natural philosophy / by Sir Isaac Newton; translated into English by Andrew Motte: to which are added, Newtonʼs System of the world; a short comment on and defense of, the Principia, by William Emerson; with the laws of the moonʼs motion according to gravity, by John Machin.

Does Aristotle have a mechanics? / H. Carteron.

The mathematical and philosophical works of the Right Reverend John Wilkins ... To which is prefix'd the author's life, and an account of his works / [John Wilkins].

La collezione degli antichi apparecchi dell'Istituto di fisica. 2, Meccanica dei fluidi e termologia (1840-1900) / Ezio Ragozzino, Edvige Schettino.

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Does Aristotle have a mechanics? / H. Carteron.

The mathematical and philosophical works of the Right Reverend John Wilkins ... To which is prefix'd the author's life, and an account of his works / [John Wilkins].

La collezione degli antichi apparecchi dell'Istituto di fisica. 2, Meccanica dei fluidi e termologia (1840-1900) / Ezio Ragozzino, Edvige Schettino.

Mechanics: a machine with pulleys and calibrated dials. Engraving by A. Bell.