Relativity Errata for Gravitation and Cosmology book by Steven Weinberg

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The discussion centers around the search for errata related to Weinberg's books, particularly focusing on the Cosmology and Gravitation text. Participants note that there appears to be no official or unofficial errata for Weinberg's works, despite efforts to find corrections. A corrections file for the Cosmology book is provided, accessible at a specific URL. One participant highlights a specific error in the book, pointing out a mistake in a footnote regarding the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, where "300 light years" should be corrected to "Mly" (megalight years), referencing a study that confirms the correct scale of galaxy distribution. The conversation reflects a commitment to identifying and correcting any inaccuracies found in the text as readers progress through the material.
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Does someone know of an official or unofficial errata for the above book of Weinberg?
 
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Obviously tried googling it, and find as of yet nothing.
 
I do no thing any of Weinberg's books has an errata. So from this perspective, if you find something which may be plain wrong, spell it here.
 
Well, the Cosmology book has a corrections' file here:
http://zippy.ph.utexas.edu/~weinberg/swcorrections.pdf

I plan to read the Cosmology and Gravitation book after I am finished with Schutz's book.
I hope all the mistakes if there are will be found and corrected; But progress will be rather slow.
 
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MathematicalPhysicist said:
Well, the Cosmology book has a corrections' file here:
http://zippy.ph.utexas.edu/~weinberg/swcorrections.pdf

I plan to read the Cosmology and Gravitation book after I am finished with Schutz's book.
I hope all the mistakes if there are will be found and corrected; But progress will be rather slow.
On the very first page, footnote 2: "The Sloan Digital Sky Survey provides evidence that the distribution of galaxies is homogeneous on scales larger than about 300 light years[...]" Of course, he meant Mly. Checking the reference (Yadav et al. 2005), it's indeed 60− 70h-1 Mpc.
 
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