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[Daniel Bump]

Dan Schmidt (dfan at lglass.com) wrote, on Weisenburger's book:

> I am a little wary of the Weisenburger book, because in my area of
> expertise (classical music), around half of the entries have some sort
> of error.

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> Und so weiter.  Not that misunderstanding any of these references has
> much bearing on a reading of the book (who really cares whether
> Wozzeck is the captain or the captain's barber?), but the frequency
> with which I find problems with the musical references makes me worry
> about the more important entries that I have no knowledge of.

Another howler: Roger Mexico's ``Whittaker and Watson'' is identified by
Weisenburger as a German View Camera. It's a book, the famous (still in print
after 90 years or so) ``Course of Modern Analysis'' by E.T. Whittaker and
G.N. Watson. This is quite disturbing, since it shows a willingness to make up
a fact out of whole cloth if he doesn't know something.

                                Daniel Bump
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