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Lauren Aguirre, Executive Editor
Gayle Añonuevo, Editorial Assistant
Brenden Kootsey, Senior Web Developer
Lexi Krock, Associate Editor
David Levin, Editorial Assistant
Susan K. Lewis, Editor
Anna Malsberger, Designer
Peter Tyson, Editor in Chief
Anya Vinokour, Senior Designer

Special Thanks
Bill Newman, Indiana University
Clifford Johnson, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

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Newton's Dark Secrets homepage
Image: (page title) © NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation

A Complicated Man
Photos: (Isaac Newton) Courtesy The Royal Society, www.royalsoc.ac.uk; (Jed Buchwald, Newton's tomb) Courtesy Jed Buchwald; (Newton illustration) © Leonard de Selva/CORBIS; (manuscript) Courtesy Cambridge University Library; (solar system) Courtesy NASA; (alchemist painting) HIP/Art Resource, New York; (Newton death mask) © Jim Sugar/CORBIS

Birth of a Masterpiece
Photos: (Isaac Newton) © British Library/HIP/Art Resource, NY; (Edmond Halley) Courtesy The Royal Society, www.royalsoc.ac.uk; (Isaac Newton's study) © Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY; (Trinity College) © Historical Picture Archive/CORBIS; (page from Principia) Courtesy Wikipedia.org; (title page of Principia) © Andrew Dunn

Einstein on Newton
Photos: (Isaac Newton) Courtesy The Royal Society, www.royalsoc.ac.uk; (Albert Einstein) © CORBIS; (Johannes Kepler, Michael Faraday) Courtesy The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St. Andrews; (painting of Galileo) © Scala/Art Resource, NY; (solar system) © NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation; (James Clerk Maxwell) © Bettmann/CORBIS; (Isaac Newton engraving) Courtesy Wikipedia.org; (universe) Courtesy NASA

Newton's Alchemy
Photo: (manuscript) Courtesy Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

Magic or Mainstream Science?
Photos: (alchemist painting) © David Lees/CORBIS; (vegetation of metal, molten metal, purple alloy) © NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation; (Venus and Mars Painting) Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna; (manuscript) Courtesy Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

His Legacy
Photos: (telescope) © Andrew Dunn; ("Newton Investigating Light") © Bettmann/CORBIS; ("How to Draw Tangents to Mechanicall Lines") Courtesy Cambridge University Library; (Principia page) Courtesy Library of Congress, (Woolsthorpe Manor) © Jim Sugar/CORBIS; (alchemist painting) Courtesy Wikipedia.org; (Blake painting) Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY

TV Program Description
Photo: (Isaac Newton) © British Library/HIP/Art Resource, NY

 

Narrated by
F. Murray Abraham

Produced by
Chris Oxley & Malcolm Neaum

Directed by
Chris Oxley

Produced for NOVA by
Joseph McMaster

Narration Written By
Joseph McMaster

Associate Producer
Julie Crawford

Edited By
Nathan Hendrie
Safi Ferrah

Isaac Newton Portrayed By
Scott Handy

Camera
Jon Wood
Rick Robertson
Joe Vitagliano

Sound Recordists
Keith Branch
Doug Donald
Mario Cardenas
John Garrett

Music
Rob Morsberger
Robert Foster

Animation
Edgeworx, Inc.
DVA

Actors
Jamie Scholes
Eaun MacNaughton
James Tovell
Roger Braban
Philip Harvey
John Forbes Robertson

Online Editor and Colorist
Mark Steele

Audio Mix
John Jenkins

Interns
Leah Eisenstadt
Brad Plummer
Hemal Trivedi

Archival Materials
Art Resource
Burndy Library, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
Bridgeman Art Library
Cambridge University Library
Corbis
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Jewish National and University Library
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Lincolnshire County Council
NASA
National Portrait Gallery
Rita Greer
Science Photo Library
The Royal Society
Trinity College

Special Thanks
Dr. Mordechai Feingold
Dr. Guy Blaylock
Dr. Arthur Greenberg
Dr. Lawrence Principe
Dr. Robert Hunt
Chris "Mr. Math" McGrath
Burndy Library, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
Babson College
Caltech
The Royal Society

Executive Producer, BBC
Anne Tyerman

 

NOVA Series Graphics
yU + co.

NOVA Theme Music
Walter Werzowa
John Luker
Musikvergnuegen, Inc.

Additional NOVA Theme Music
Ray Loring

Post Production Online Editor
Spencer Gentry

Closed Captioning
The Caption Center

NOVA Administrator
Dara Bourne

Publicity
Eileen Campion
Olivia Wong

Senior Researcher
Barbara Moran

Production Coordinator
Linda Callahan

Unit Manager
Lola Norman-Salako

Paralegal
Richard Parr

Legal Counsel
Susan Rosen Shishko

Post Production Assistant
Alex Kreuter

Associate Producers, Post Production
Nathan Gunner
Patrick Carey

Post Production Supervisor
Regina O'Toole

Post Production Editor
Rebecca Nieto

Post Production Manager
Maureen Barden Lynch

Supervising Producer
Stephen Sweigart

Producer, Special Projects
Susanne Simpson

Coordinating Producer
Laurie Cahalane

Senior Science Editor
Evan Hadingham

Senior Series Producer
Melanie Wallace

Managing Director
Alan Ritsko

Senior Executive Producer
Paula S. Apsell

  

A Blakeway Production for the BBC and WGBH Boston

© 2003 BBC

Additional program material © 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation

All rights reserved

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9901978.  Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Animation by Dan Maas, Maas Digital LLC
© 2002 Cornell University. All rights reserved.

This work was performed for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, sponsored by the United States Government under Prime Contract#NAS7-1047 betweeen the California Institute of Technology and NASA. Copyright and other rights in the design drawings of theMars Exploration Rover are held by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Use of the MER design has been provided to Cornell courtesy of NASA, JPL and Caltech.

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