thermotics

== English == === Etymology === Coined by William Whewell, 1831, along with photistics. See thermo-. === Noun === thermotics (uncountable) (archaic) The branch of physics that deals with the science of heat. 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences, p.465, London: J.W. Parker, 1837. I employ the term Thermotics, to include all the doctrines respecting heat, which have hitherto been established on proper scientific grounds. (archaic) thermodynamics ==== Usage notes ==== Etymologically, thermotics bears the same relationship to thermodynamics as mechanics bears to dynamics (compare statics), or that hydraulics bears to hydrodynamics (compare hydrostatics). However, thermodynamics is the more usual term in modern usage.