Lol. It’s just astounding sometimes how advanced scientific thinking was 500 years or so ago...Newton, Laplace, Euler, Galileo, Kepler, Copernicus. Not only did they risk their necks (literally) to confront dogma but they conceptualized both the principle and derived mathematical underpinnings without any of the tools we takes for granded today.
One has to wonder if aliens didn’t come and inject the human race with some super-DNA, almost all of which has since been bred-out and we’re left with the kind of “science” that is shoved down our throats today by people who can barely spell the word.
Euler did not risk his neck. By limiting himself to mathematics and physics . He stayed out of politics DELIBERATELY. He liked his head and wanted to keep it above his shoulders.