The Net Advance of Physics RETRO:
SOME INTERESTING RECENT HISTORY-OF-SCIENCE PAPERS

A random and non-comprehensive collection of modern papers about long-nineteenth-century physics, begun in 2022 December.

• ASTRONOMY:
  • 130 years of spectroheliograms at Paris-Meudon observatories (1892-2022) by J.-M. Malherbe [2023/01]
  • Astronomical tent observatories: Relics of a bygone era by R. de Grijs [2023/02]
  • The discovery of Neptune revisited by G. Rodríguez-Moris and J. A. Docobo [2024/05]

• PHYSICS: Old Quantum Theory:
  • Textbook myths about early atomic models by R. Renstrøm and N.-E. Bomark [2022/12]. Thomson's plum pudding was rather more orderly than a typical cook's; Rutherford's atom was less like Bohr's than most people think; why does no-one talk about Nagaoka (I've wondered that too) or Nicholson?

THE NET ADVANCE OF PHYSICS --- Retro