1759, Philip Miller, The Gardeners Dictionary, volume I, HYD:To Hydroſtaticks belongs whatever relates to the Gravities and Æquilibria of Liquors, with the Art of weighing Bodies in Water, in order to eſtimate the ſpecifick Gravities.
1982, Roger L. Emerson, Gilles Girard, and Roseann Runte, Man and Nature: proceedings of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, page 212 (University of Western Ontario Faculty of Education; ISBN 0920354149, 9780920354148):The structural analysis indicates two levels; plain fibres, which can be described more geometrico, and complex æquilibria of fibres, which cannot be accounted for geometrically: wherefore it is necessary to subordinate geometry to observation.
