The "Journal of Geoscience education" has, or used to have, a regular
series on common erros in textbooks, these were typically conceptual
errors. It was quite enlightening.
Jon
george murphy wrote:
> Adrian Teo wrote:
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>> Check this out:http://www.escape.ca/~dcc/phys/errors.htmlThere was
>> also an article in our local papers several months ago about a team
>> of physicists who went through several textbooks and found some
>> really ridiculous errors, and some pretty substantial ones as well.
>> Anybody remember that?
>>
>> Thanks for the reference. I am of course quite aware that
>> there are errors in physics texts. I haven't checked out all of
>> them in this listing but many are of the "factor of c missing",
>> "vector should have been printed in boldface" &c type. I had
>> assumed from the reference to such errors in your original posts
>> that you were referring to errors that had some substantial
>> connection with evolution. This does not seem to be the case & the
>> cited errors therefore have nothing to do with "icons of evolution".
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>> Shalom,
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>>
>> George
>>
>> George L. Murphy
>> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
>> "The Science-Theology Interface"
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