> I thought the 'real' info on Maxwell was hard to come by?
It is. The books you find are edited copies of the original
manuscripts.
> I just did a search on Amazon.com and found TONS of work
> by him? Most of the books he wrote can be had for very
> cheap, 10 bucks for paperbacks.
To the best of my knowlege, these are re-prints of the Heaviside(sp?)
edited edtion- which do not hold the quaternions (I've not looked
extensively at my copies of the two critical books covering
electromagnetics but I've not seen any quaternions yet...)
> There is also what appears
> to be a complete collection of his papers and letters from
> the 1800's?
>
> The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell : 1862-1873
> James Clerk Maxwell, P.M. Harman (Editor)
> Our Price: $305.00
>
> Hardcover Vol 002 (May 1995)
> Cambridge Univ Pr (Short); ISBN: 0521256267
It's my understanding that these just recently went back into print.
(Look at the date of publishing- May 1995.) Furthermore, since it's
kind of expensive ($305 is a wee bit much for many!) I doubt that many
have purchased this edition (which could be edited like the original
published edition, sans quaternions) to see if it's "complete". One
would need his ORIGINAL manuscripts to be sure.
-- Frank Earl