The term "Aerometry" is not commonly used; instead, this branch of philosophy is usually referred to as Pneumatics. See PNEUMATICS.
C. Wolfius, Professor of Mathematics at Halle, having reduced many of the properties of this fluid to geometrical demonstration, published Elements of Aerometry, at Leipzig, 1709, first in High Dutch and afterwards in Latin. Thus, the doctrine of the Air is incorporated into the Mathematical Sciences. See MATHEMATICS.
The word is derived from the Greek "αήρ" (aer), meaning air, and "μετρέω" (metreo), meaning to measure.