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1839 G. Field Outl. Analogic. Philos. I. 40 It remains only, therefore, that we inquire into the science of Purposes, or Teleology, which is, in other terms, the science of art, or Technics.

1952 L. Mumford Art & Technics 15 We ordinarily use the word technology to describe both the field of the practical arts and the systematic study of their operations and products... I prefer to use technics alone to describe the field itself, that part of human activity wherein, by an energetic organization of the process of work, man controls and directs the forces of nature for his own purposes.

1952 A. C. Crombie Augustine to Galileo iv. 156 The chief contribution of classical civilisation to science was not in technics but in speculative thought.

1965 Nature 4 Dec. 925/1 Tool-technics is but a fragment of bio-technics: man's total equipment for life.

1972 Science 12 May 621/3 They would also be ‘pluridisciplinary’ which meant..that the universities would ‘associate wherever possible arts and letters with sciences and technics’.

1998 R. Beardsworth & G. Collins tr. B. Stiegler Technics & Time, 1 15 Technics evolves more quickly than culture.

1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §257. 271 Antique vases..also, very grandly and beautifully designed, of the more perfect style of technics [Ger. der vollkommnern Technik].

1871 J. Morley Byron in Crit. Misc. 256 Conformity to the accepted rules that constitute the technics of poetry.

1909 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 204 Literary technics, especially that of the novel, depends on reproducing experiments from life.

1994 Nature 15 Mar. 627/2 Cardwell distinguishes between technics and technology: ‘we have on the one hand crafts, technics and invention; on the other hand technology, applied science and invention’.