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.

Contents

• Nysl d graham burnett on trying leviathan
• D graham burnett and sal randolph the order of the third bird documents and considerations
• Awards and recognition
• Works
• References

Burnett is a member of the Esthetical Society for Transcendental and Applied Realization (now incorporating the Society for Esthetic Realizers) (ESTAR(SER)), a research collective dedicated to studying the historicity of the Order of the Third Bird.

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. ISBN 9780226100579

Trying Leviathan Princeton University Press. November 2007.

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