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With the move of this article to "Vector Analysis (book)" the title of the article no longer specifies its content because there are a great number of books with the title Vector Analysis. It is a particular historic book that merits an article, the one by E.B. Wilson based on notes from the lectures of Gibbs. Therefore the move should be undone. Please take a moment, if you see this note, to add you opinion on this encyclopedia issue. By discussion we can compare the merits of the various titles of this article. Rgdboer ( talk) 21:20, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
No qualifier in the title may well lead to confusion with vector analysis. I've added a hatnote, but I'd say we would avoid confusion by moving the page to Vector Analysis (book) (or a more specific title once we have articles on other such books). Huon ( talk) 16:09, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
The content section of the article is rather thin for a book full of material. Furthermore, most articles on books recount the opinions of reviewers. Presently there are several reviews, listed in References, but not referred to in the article. This book played a very important role in bringing to engineers some of the advances in nineteenth century mathematics. The success of the book proved that, upon occasion, a simplification or dumbing down of sophisticated ideas is justified. Rgdboer ( talk) 22:04, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
"It went through seven editions (1913, 1916, 1922, 1925, 1929, 1931, and 1943)."
I'm not sure that's the case. I don't know the full story about the differences between whether another version is a new edition or just a reprint, but my understanding is that all except 1929 were merely reprints.
This is the 1947 printing online: https://archive.org/details/117714283/page/n15/mode/2up and it can be seen on the copyright page "Copyright 1901 and 1929", and under than the dates of 9 printings. There is also, apart from the prefaces to the original work, one "preface to the second edition" and no further.
So it might be worth doing some further research and review whether each of 1913, 1916, 1922, 1925, 1929, 1931, and 1943 is actually a new edition or just a reprinting. -- Matt Westwood 08:06, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
As a note, Gibbs' original work from 1881 is mentioned off-hand but unnamed in the article. I had been under the impression it was totally unpublished lost to time. However, there does in fact appear to be a copy of it on Internet Archive (marked 'not published' and 'From the author, June, 1888'): https://archive.org/details/elementsvectora00gibb
It is interesting that in the preface he mentions Clifford's 1878 Kinematic, and Grassmann. -- Nanite ( talk) 07:48, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
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With the move of this article to "Vector Analysis (book)" the title of the article no longer specifies its content because there are a great number of books with the title Vector Analysis. It is a particular historic book that merits an article, the one by E.B. Wilson based on notes from the lectures of Gibbs. Therefore the move should be undone. Please take a moment, if you see this note, to add you opinion on this encyclopedia issue. By discussion we can compare the merits of the various titles of this article. Rgdboer ( talk) 21:20, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
No qualifier in the title may well lead to confusion with vector analysis. I've added a hatnote, but I'd say we would avoid confusion by moving the page to Vector Analysis (book) (or a more specific title once we have articles on other such books). Huon ( talk) 16:09, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
The content section of the article is rather thin for a book full of material. Furthermore, most articles on books recount the opinions of reviewers. Presently there are several reviews, listed in References, but not referred to in the article. This book played a very important role in bringing to engineers some of the advances in nineteenth century mathematics. The success of the book proved that, upon occasion, a simplification or dumbing down of sophisticated ideas is justified. Rgdboer ( talk) 22:04, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
"It went through seven editions (1913, 1916, 1922, 1925, 1929, 1931, and 1943)."
I'm not sure that's the case. I don't know the full story about the differences between whether another version is a new edition or just a reprint, but my understanding is that all except 1929 were merely reprints.
This is the 1947 printing online: https://archive.org/details/117714283/page/n15/mode/2up and it can be seen on the copyright page "Copyright 1901 and 1929", and under than the dates of 9 printings. There is also, apart from the prefaces to the original work, one "preface to the second edition" and no further.
So it might be worth doing some further research and review whether each of 1913, 1916, 1922, 1925, 1929, 1931, and 1943 is actually a new edition or just a reprinting. -- Matt Westwood 08:06, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
As a note, Gibbs' original work from 1881 is mentioned off-hand but unnamed in the article. I had been under the impression it was totally unpublished lost to time. However, there does in fact appear to be a copy of it on Internet Archive (marked 'not published' and 'From the author, June, 1888'): https://archive.org/details/elementsvectora00gibb
It is interesting that in the preface he mentions Clifford's 1878 Kinematic, and Grassmann. -- Nanite ( talk) 07:48, 19 January 2024 (UTC)