SUPPRESSION ALERT: James Clerk Maxwell's Treatise On Electricity And Magnetism

[ZeframCochrane]

http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/books/CALL5/537_M46T_1873_VOL._1/vol0/part0/copy0/jpg/lg/
http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/books/CALL5/537_M46T_1873_VOL._2/vol0/part0/copy0/jpg/lg/

I've downloaded the image files (all 600+ megs of them). I converted the images from greyscale to black-and-white (which shrunk them down to 60+ megs of images). I combined them to form two .pdf files, one per volume (roughly 50 megs in total, or 25 megs per .pdf file).

I tried to upload them here, but the connection kept timing out.

These files are now available.

Filename: A_Treatise_On_Electricity_And_Magnetism-Maxwell-Volume_I.pdf
Filesize: 22.92 MB
Download Link: http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=a0d73dec4b66a8bf5ff979921d65ed0d

Filename: A_Treatise_On_Electricity_And_Magnetism-Maxwell-Volume_II.pdf
Filesize: 22.59 MB
Download Link: http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=59053c864b9529b2b6db333a0237ddbb

The megashare site is down too.  It says all the slots are filled.   Either lots of people are dowloading Maxwell's treatise or there's a DOS(Denial of Service) attack going on.

Try putting the files up at Rapidshare.de and every other free uploading place you can think of.    Or better yet try putting lots of copies on the PeertoPeer networks; Limewire, Gnutella, Bearshare, Morpheus, BitTorrent, etc.

Rapidshare
http://www.rapidshare.de

[ewitte]

I have volume 1 but they want me to wait 81 minutes to download more unless I pay.  I'll try to get some torrents out too.

[ZeframCochrane]

I have volume 1 but they want me to wait 81 minutes to download more unless I pay.  I'll try to get some torrents out too.

The PeertoPeer networks(Gnutella, etc.) would also be a good place to distribute Maxwell's book.

BTW, the Carnegie Mellon site is back up;

A Treatise On Electricity And Magnetism - 1873 - Carnegie Mellon University
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Volume 1
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http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/books/book.cgi?call=537_M46T_1873_VOL._1

Large JPGS
http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/books/CALL5/537_M46T_1873_VOL._1/vol0/part0/copy0/jpg/lg/

Small JPGS
http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/books/CALL5/537_M46T_1873_VOL._1/vol0/part0/copy0/jpg/lg/


Volume 2
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http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/books/book.cgi?call=537_M46T_1873_VOL._2

Large JPGS
http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/books/CALL5/537_M46T_1873_VOL._2/vol0/part0/copy0/jpg/lg/

Small JPGS
http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/books/CALL5/537_M46T_1873_VOL._2/vol0/part0/copy0/jpg/sm/


but the main page for Volume 2 is still corrupted.   The JPG directories still work.

For the last two days, the entire site was gone.   And the original JPG directories were scrubbed from the site.   I normally would have attributed the dissappearance of Maxwell's Treatise as a simple server upgrade but it's still possible somebody hacked into the site and tried to keep people from accessing Maxwell's work.   But it's too late now, the scalar potential genie is out of the bottle.

[not_a_mib]

Has anyone noticed a slight shortage of actual quaternions in these books?

They appear to have the standard gradient, divergence, curl, and similar vector operators written out by component or even using the
modern "del" operator notations.  In a quick search, I found references to "Tait's Quaternions" but no actual quaternion equations.
What pages have the good stuff?  (Being a clueless amateur, I need to be "shewn" things that a professional over-unitarian
could spot immediately.)

The basic development of the electromagnetism equations appears to be roughly same as in modern textbooks, but written out fully as
vector components.

If I didn't know better, I might suspect that this version has been "dequaternionized" by evil conspirators such as International Zionists,
Freemasons, Illuminati, Black Chopper Pilots, or particularly evil members of the ISO C++ working group.

[ZeframCochrane]

Here's another copy of Maxwell's 1873 book at archive.org;

Volume 1 - A Treatise On Electricity And Magnetism - James Clerk Maxwell - 1873
http://www.archive.org/details/electricandmagne01maxwrich

Volume 2 - Treatise On Electricity And Magnetism - James Clerk Maxwell - 1873
http://www.archive.org/details/electricandmag02maxwrich