Leonhard EULER is further evidence that Christians, Christianity and the Bible have not always stood in the way of scientific discovery.
To say otherwise is a misrepresentation of history.
For example, Christopher Columbus was not severely persecuted for implying that the world was spherical. That myth is listed in the top 20 most common fallacies of history.
Another myth is that all Christians before Capernicus thought the world was flat. Saint Augustine wrote about the earth being a sphere, as early as circa 4th century AD. Other Christian writers even proposed that the sun, and not the earth, was the centre of the solar system. Aristotle wrote about the sphericity of the earth hundreds of years before Christ. The sphericity of the earth had long been deduced by seafarers. Some denominations of the Church in some locations did later criticize these ideas - but not for long, and not everywhere, and not in every denomination of the Church.
In fact, the Bible mentions the "circle of the earth". That the earth is a sphere was depicted in early drawings of the Church.
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