
D. Graham Burnett
D. Graham Burnett is an editor at Cabinet Magazine and a historian of science at Princeton University. His most recent book is The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century.
D. Graham Burnett is an editor at Cabinet Magazine and a historian of science at Princeton University. His most recent book is The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century.
It has never been easy to decipher what nature is trying to tell us, but that hasn’t stopped us from filling in the... More
A history of pedagogical practices in the classroom and in the field. More
The first adventurers in the Age of Discovery didn’t just make progress into uncharted waters, they invented the very... More
Roundtable
D. Graham Burnett recounts an unlikely conversation he had with his barber about the philosophy of history. More