Book:J. Willard Gibbs/Elements of Vector Analysis/Historical Note

Historical Note on
first printed his in $1881$, and again in $1884$, for the benefit of his students.

Despite considerable urging, he was reluctant to publish it officially, because he felt it offered nothing original that had not already been said by others.

However, he finally consented to the pamphlet being used as the basis of a much more comprehensive work, that is,, by his student , which happened in $1901$.