The Wikipedia article sadly neglects to mention the work of mathematician Mary Blagg in the early 20th century (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Adela_Blagg h

The Wikipedia article sadly neglects to mention the work of mathematician Mary Blagg in the early 20th century (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Adela_Blagg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Adela_Blagg), and the in-depth examination by Michael Martin Nieto in the 1970s. That's a significant oversight; Nieto himself pointed out how a kind of cultural 'momentum' 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 Heck, on this topic, even my undergraduate astrophysics text was a couple of centuries out of date!