The Wikipedia article sadly neglects to mention the work of mathematician Mary Blagg in the early 20th century (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mary_Adela_Blagg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mary_Adela_Blagg</a>), and the in-depth examination by Michael Martin Nieto in the 1970s.<p>That&#x27;s a significant oversight; Nieto himself pointed out how a kind of cultural &#x27;momentum&#x27; in the scientific community kept the old, obsolete ideas in vogue, while more thorough work was ignored. Heck, on this topic, even my undergraduate astrophysics text was a couple of centuries out of date!