With my previous books, I've posted errata pages, to list errors discovered after publication. Email me if you spot errors, and I'll list them here.
Here are errors in The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski:
- Norbert Wiener's name is misspelled Weiner in a few places.
- On p. 109, I describe Szilard's insight regarding the chain reaction and refer to the speech by Lord Rutherford, but attribute it to Chadwick. This is such a bizarre error, I'm mystified by how that made it through. I knew it was Rutherford. How could this mistake have escaped the multiple edits and re-edits? Proof that something will always make it through, somehow.
- On p. 207, I relate how Bronowski gave a heated response to a question on the TV show Any Questions? and that he refused to return to the show for several months afterward. Given my phrasing, some readers might think I was referring to the TV show Brains Trust. I probably should have been clearer, but it can be confusing, because Brains Trust was initially called Any Questions? but the name was then changed to Brains Trust. Then, later, another show went on the air which was called Any Questions? and it was on this show that the incident I relate occurred. It was not long afterwards, however, that he quit Brains Trust as well.
- On p. 10 I say that Bronowski and Samuel Beckett "coedited" a book. I meant to say that Bronowski edited a book in which Beckett's work appeared (European Caravan, which was Beckett's first appearance in a book). But Beckett did not work as a co-editor on that book.
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