D. Graham Burnett is an American historian of science and a writer. He is a professor at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

and an editor at ''

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'', based in Brooklyn, New York. Burnett received his A.B. in

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...

(concentration in the

history of science The history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural, social, and formal. Science's earliest roots can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Meso ...

) at

and an M.Phil and Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science at

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or Oxford. ...

Awards and recognition

* 2013-2014

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City in the United States, simply known as Mellon Foundation, is a private foundation with five core areas of interest, and endowed with wealth accumulated by Andrew Mellon of the Mellon family of Pitts ...

“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 The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...

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 The Marshall Scholarship is a postgraduate scholarship for "intellectually distinguished young Americans ndtheir country's future leaders" to study at any university in the United Kingdom. It is widely considered one of the most prestigious sc ...

, 1993-1995 * Moses Taylor Pyne Prize, highest undergraduate award at Princeton University, 1993 *

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, 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.

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.

University of Chicago Press. September 2000. * ''A Little Common Place Book,'' introduction by D. Graham Burnett (New York: Cabinet Books, and Proteotypes, 2010).

References

External links

Interview
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Lecture on natural history and systematics, Smithsonian Institution. 2008.Interview on the history of science
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