Just opened randomly on pg118.
By definition, a block of gas is less dense than the same size block of liquid, which is less dense than the same size block of a solid
The only thing this defines is 'bollox'.
He's obviously never seen water expand when frozen.
And never noticed that the titanic was sunk by a FLOATING iceberg.
Randomly pg23
Apparently mach number is expressed as a percentage. It then contradicts itself by saying (correctly) half the speed of sound is 0.5 mach, clearly NOT a percentage.
Not the biggest errors in the book but I only looked at 2 pages.