Which Pope condemned Isaac Newton and on what grounds?

Answer 1

Newton isn't condemned by any pope you're mistaken with Galileo Galilei. The person who was the first to realize that the sun was the center of us solar system and not the sun. At that moment the church did still belief in the theory of Prolemeus ( the earth is the center ) and pope Urbanus VIII condemned Galileo.

Answer 2

No Pope has ever condemned Newton, you shouldn't believe everything you see in the Da Vinci Code.

Religiously, he was an Arian and if the Pope had known, he would not have approved but then, neither would the rest of Christendom, since the arians do/did not believe in the equality of Father and Son.

Answer 3

I did not learn that any specifically condemned Newton; however, the Catholic Church and several bishops thought his work was blasphemous since it indicated gravity held the planets in their places, and of course all Catholic Bishops know that God does that...


I think it was Pope Urban VIII who forced Galileio to recant his published work that told us the earth moves around the sun... kind of related to Newton's later works... as Sir Issac said: "we see the stars by standing on the shoulders of giants..." or something like that

Answer 4

Ironically, Newton was a devoutly religious man who actually wrote more on religion than science. He did question the RC doctrine of the Holy Trinity, however, I am unaware that any pope ever took sanctions against him.