On Feb 4, 9:17*pm, Richard Clark wrote:
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 12:09:17 -0800 (PST), K1TTT wrote:
it all depends on who is writing history:

"The four partial differential equations, now known as Maxwell's
equations, first appeared in fully developed form in Electricity and
Magnetism (1873). Most of this work was done by Maxwell at Glenlair
during the period between holding his London post and his taking up
the Cavendish chair. They are one of the great achievements of 19th-
century mathematics."

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~...s/Maxwell.html

Yes, indeed it does matter who is "writing history." *The quotation
above is, in fact, quite wrong.

* * * * "Maxwell's formulation of electromagnetism consisted
* * * * of 20 equations in 20 variables. Heaviside employed
* * * * the curl and divergence operators of the vector
* * * * calculus to reformulate these 20 equations into
* * * * four equations in four variables (B, E, J, and rho),
* * * * the form by which they have been known ever
* * * * since (see Maxwell's equations)."

This "writing of history" above comes from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside
where the embedded link to *(see Maxwell's equations) is:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations
which then "RE-WRITES HISTORY" to state that the forms of the four
equations (formulated by Heaviside) were original to Maxwell (whose
work of 20 are ignored).

This, of course, will have no effect on the Soviet-inspired
revisionist polemic that un-informs this side thread from S* our
amateur doctrinaire.

* * * * * *

As an experiment at translate.google.com, I entered that last
paragraph above, translated it into Polish, and then took the Polish
output and ran it through (in reverse as it were) to see what that
looked like in English:

"This, of course, will not affect the relationship inspired
revisionist polemic that does not inform the thread-by-S * our
doctrinaire enthusiasts."

Curious how the "Soviet" was airbrushed out of translation.

So through carefully crafting the statement to preserve its piquancy,
I amended it to:

This, of course, will have no effect on the Stalinist-inspired
revisionist polemic that un-informs this side thread from S* our
amateur doctrinaire.

English-Polish-English renders:

"This, of course, will have no impact on the Stalinist-inspired
revisionist polemic that does not inform the thread-by-S * our
doctrinaire enthusiasts."

Aside from the last plural in place of singular, quite faithful to the
intended irony.

* * * * * * *

I wasn't going to try to push Maxwell's 20 equations through
translate.google.com to see if Heaviside emerged.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

i thought that rather than going to wikipedia or somewhere else it was
more appropriate to quote from the maxwell bio on the same website
mr.B used to get his quote.