"What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." (Isaac Newton)
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:31 PM, David Cutter <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't recall that from his biography, I'll have to read it again. > Interesting. > > David > G3UNA > > > > Hi Kevin, > > > > Was not Maxwell that condensed the hard to understand original theory. > > Was some his disciples, aka "The Maxwellians," that finished the theory > > in the present form. FitzGerald, Lodge, and Heavyside plus others. > > > > Am just now reading "The Maxwellians" that has this story. > > > > 73, tom n4zpt > > > > > > > > On 3/6/2011 5:37 PM, Kevin Rock wrote: > >> I have always wondered how he condensed the original twenty equations in > >> twenty unknowns down to just four of them. The quaternions he used > >> initially were out a favor with the physics community of the day so he > >> needed to get them into vector form. Heaviside did a good job but how > do > >> you characterize a system with twenty unknowns in four equations? What > >> has been lost in the translation? > >> Kevin. KD5ONS > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -- Alexey Kats (neko) ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
