| JOURNEYS TO THE ENDS OF THE UNIVERSE C. R. Kitchin Bristol, UK: Adam Hilger, 1990 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN 0-7503-0037-X | 198pp. | HC/BWI | $38.00 | |
| Pages 74-75: | "Their main characteristics seem to lie in differing in very few respect from being nothing at all!" |
| S/B: "in very few respects". |
| Page 97: | "The theory of the formation of planetary nebulae most widely accepted at present suggests that is the cool red giants known as long period variables, such as Mira (figure 5.7), which generate them." |
| S/B: "suggests that it is the cool red giants". |
| Page 107: | "Neither of these changes, however, are to the stars themselves." |
| Number error: S/B "Neither ... is to the stars themselves." |
| Page 114: | "The fusion reactions therefore start to runaway, ..." |
| Adjective, not verb: S/B "run away". |
| Page 131: | "...there is too much iron in the outer part of the core for the shock wave to fragment entirely into lighter nuclei." |
| Missing word: S/B "to fragment it entirely". |
| Page 149: | "While full understanding of general relativity requires a very high level of mathematical competance ..." |
| Misspelled word: S/B "competence". |
| Page 153: | "Such a force is only about the equivalent of swinging by the arms from a circus trapeze, and so the volunteer would be able to survive their effects." |
| Error of number: S/B "would be able to survive its effects". |
| Page 163: | "Once Galileo had shown that the Milk Way was a vast collection of stars, ..." |
| S/B "Milky Way". |
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