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What fascinates me is how so many bugs can persist for so long.in the THIRD
How can there be a thousand errors in a thousand pages ...
EDITION?
Only the third? I started using the 7th edition of a
first-year chemistry textbook. There is a picture of a simple
electric-sector mass spectrometer with + and - flipped.
Actually, a student brought it to my attention. I informed
the publisher and one of the authors.
Tenth edition: still wrong.
A colleague and I picked apart a first-edition "Engineering
for Chemists" textbook much like you did a few years ago. We
had about one notable error every two pages. One major error
I remember is that the author occasionally used Co as the
symbol for copper. (Co is cobalt; Cu is copper.) Sent all the
errors to the author and publisher. The publisher responded,
"stylistic preferences." I just looked up the book. Still in
the first edition. 580 pages. 20 cm × 25 cm (8 in × 10 in).
Sells for 200 $.
And you wonder why I avoid publishers.