Errata for Gravitation and Cosmology book by Steven Weinberg

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The forum discussion centers on the search for an errata for Steven Weinberg's "Gravitation and Cosmology" book. Users confirm the existence of a corrections file for the Cosmology book, accessible at this link. A specific error is noted in footnote 2, where "300 light years" should correctly refer to "60−70h-1 Mpc" based on the referenced study by Yadav et al. (2005). The discussion emphasizes the need for community contributions to identify and correct potential mistakes in Weinberg's works.

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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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