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textbook touchstones

...one of my fave typo checks as a reviewer for physics texts is:
"How do they misspell KIRCHHOFF?"
...the other one is, do they fudge the sign of centripetal acceleration
and how?

For physics texts, I check to see if the useless mention of disorder
is made in the introduction to entropy, and in astronomy I always look
for a listing of James Bradley in the index.

Leigh