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

Awards and recognition

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

Works

 * The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century University of Chicago Press. January 2012, paperback edition 2013. ISBN 9780226100579
 * 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 Trial By Jury Knopf. September 2001; Japanese edition, 2006.
 * Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens-Making in the Seventeenth Century American Philosophical Society, Transactions series. Vol. 95 (3): 2005.
 * Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado University of Chicago Press. September 2000. ISBN 9780226081212
 * A Little Common Place Book, introduction by D. Graham Burnett (New York: Cabinet Books, and Proteotypes, 2010). ISBN 9781932698503