[ad. F. thermologie: see THERMO- and -LOGY.] The science of heat; that department of physics which treats of heat; thermotics.
1840. Whewell, Philos. Induct. Sc., I. p. lxxii. The science which treats of heat has hitherto had no special designation…. M. Le Comte terms it Thermology (i.e. the science of heat). In the History of the Sciences, I have named it Thermotics.
1843. Mill, Logic, II. iv. § 5 (1846), I. 246. Thus mechanics, hydrostatics, optics, acoustics, and thermology, have successively been rendered mathematical.
1858. H. Spencer, Ess., I. 215. Thus acoustics was arrested until thermology overtook and aided it.
Hence Thermological a., of or pertaining to thermology.
1871. Proctor, Sun, iv. 193. So high an authority in meteorological and thermological questions.
