[Elecraft] Maxwell's Equations.

[Jerry T. Dowell]

The two volumes of Maxwell's "A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism" were
reprinted by Dover, bound as one (very thick) volume. It does make for
interesting reading! Now it gathers dust on my shelves next to another
fabulous classic "The Theory of Sound", by Lord Raleigh (also two volumes
bound as one by Dover), a great source for solutions of eigenvalue problems.
Another huge volume by Dover is "The Scientific Papers of James Clerk
Maxwell". These books are probably still available in one form or another.

Jerry  AI6L

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Rock [mailto:kevinr at coho.net] 
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 4:41 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Maxwell's Equations.

I found the original, 1873 version of Maxwell's equations.  The four space  
quaternion versions not the Gibbs - Heaviside mapping on to three space.   
Yes, something was lost in translation.  Very interesting book.

http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/books/pages.cgi?call=537_M46T_1873_VOL.
_1

and

http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/books/book.cgi?call=537_M46T_1873_VOL._
2

An interesting winter's read.
    73,
       Kevin.  KD5ONS