Quotes from A Manual of the Steam Engine and other Prime Movers — William John Macquorn Rankine
1820–1872 Scotland
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The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy, or the capacity to perform work, which more general laws form the basis of the science of energetics, — a science comprehending, as special branches, the theories of motion, heat, light, electricity, and all other physical phenomena.
A Manual of the Steam Engine and other Prime Movers (1859)