in ordinary language by philosophers. An example is this 1720 quote from the English philosopher John Locke:

When Bacon, Galileo, Hooke, Boyle and Locke wrote "heat", they might more have referred to what we would now call "temperature". No clear distinction was made between heat and temperature until the mid-18th century, nor between the internal energy of a body and the transfer of energy as heat until the mid-19th century.

Locke's description of heat was repeatedly quoted by English physicist

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