D. Graham Burnett

D. Graham Burnett is an American historian of science and a writer. He is a professor at Princeton University and an editor at Cabinet, based in Brooklyn, New York.

Early life and education

Burnett received his A.B. in history (concentration in the history of science) at Princeton University and an MPhil and Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Career

Books Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado University of Chicago Press. September 2000. Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens-Making in the Seventeenth Century American Philosophical Society, Transactions series. Vol. 95 (3): 2005. A Trial By Jury Knopf. September 2001; Japanese edition, 2006. Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature Princeton University Press. November 2007; paperback edition, 2008. A Little Common Place Book, introduction by D. Graham Burnett (New York: Cabinet Books, and Proteotypes, 2010). The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century University of Chicago Press. January 2012, paperback edition 2013.

Awards and recognition Salutatorian, Princeton University Class of 1993, gave Latin address at Commencement, 1993 Moses Taylor Pyne Prize, highest undergraduate award at Princeton University, 1993 U.S. Marshall Scholarship, 1993–1995 Nebenzahl Prize in the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago, 1999 Cullman Fellow, New York Public Library, Center for Scholars and Writers, 1999-2000 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2003–2004 Christian Gauss Fund University Preceptorship, Princeton University, 2004–2007 Howard Foundation Fellowship in the History of Science, 2005-2006 New York City Book Award, New York Society Library, 2007 Hermalyn Prize in Urban History, Bronx Historical Society, 2008 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation “New Directions” Fellowship, 2009-2011 2013-2014 Guggenheim Fellow