D Graham Burnett
Biographic Data
| ID | 684364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Graham Burnett |
| GIVEN NAMES | D Graham |
| FAMILY NAME | Burnett |
| SIGNATURE | BURNETT D G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Qu’est-ce qu’un sanctuaire attentionnel
Cet article appelle à la création de nouveaux sanctuaires pour cultiver de nouvelles normes et habitudes communes concernant les appareils numériques. Les preuves suggèrent que ces sanctuaires attentionnels (et la formalisation des conventions pour créer de tels espaces) joueront un rôle de plus en plus important dans la gestion/l’atténuation des dimensions de santé publique et de bien-être des plateformes numériques à l’échelle sociale
The Eye and the Mind: Mary Cheves West Perky, Imaginative Phenomenology, and the Historiography of Reverse Hallucination
Revisiting the remarkable experimental work of the pioneering early twentieth-century psychologist Mary Cheves West Perky (1875-1940), this article argues for the historiographical significance of her counterintuitive findings concerning the human imagination and the phenomenon of "reverse hallucination." By means of an exhaustive and forensic archival inquiry, this article reconstructs Perky's heretofore (essentially) unknown biography, providin…
Metafiction and the study of history: Makerly knowledge in the archive
Rapid changes in the context and condition of historical practice (technological, institutional, theoretical) invite practicing historians to entertain experimental techniques for engaging the past: for teaching students; for investigating archives; and for presenting the results of historical inquiry. The authors introduce a form of historically oriented research and writing that shows promise as a way of encouraging genuine immersion in the spe…
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
The Objective Case: A Review of Objectivity
July 01 2010 The Objective Case: A Review of Objectivity D. Graham Burnett D. Graham Burnett D. GRAHAM BURNETT is Professor of History and History of Science at Princeton University and an editor at Cabinet magazine, based in Brooklyn. He is the author of four books, including Trying Leviathan (Princeton University Press, 2007), which won the New York City Book Award in 2008. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Auth…
Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature
In Moby-Dick , Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides in one of the great controversies of the early nineteenth century--one that ultimately had to be resolved in the courts of New York City. In Trying Leviathan ,…
Michael S. Mahoney, 1939-2008
Perhaps the clearest testimony to the scholarly range and depth of Princeton's now‐lamented Michael S. Mahoney lies in the dismay of his colleagues in the last few years, as they contemplated his imminent retirement. How to maintain coverage of his fields? Fretting over this question, the program in history of science that he did so much to build recently found itself sketching a five-year plan that involved replacing him with no fewer than four …
Metaphysics, money & the Messiah: A conversation about Melville's “The Confidence-Man”
Matthew Fontaine Maury's “Sea of Fire”: Hydrography, Biogeography, and Providence in the Tropics
This chapter discusses the hydrographic mapping of Matthew Fontaine Maury. The significance of his mapping methods was important for the development of oceanography and for his particular conception of tropicality. It lay firmly in the tradition of natural theology. But far from being an obstacle, this provided a congenial frame for his Humboldtian vision of science. The chapter also discusses Maury understanding of the earth's tropical zones. Ma…
Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens Making Machines and Their Significance in the Seventeenth Century
D. Graham Burnett, Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens Making Machines and Their Significance in the Seventeenth Century, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 95, No. 3 (2005), pp. i, iii-v, vii-viii, 1-121, 123-133, 135-143, 145-152
It Is Impossible to Make a Step without the Indians: Nineteenth-Century Geographical Exploration and the Amerindians of British Guiana
An effort is made to reveal the multiple functions of early nineteenth-century geographic expeditions into the interior of lowland South America, with an emphasis on the subtle and pervasive ways that"scientific" knowledge (natural historical, gregraphic,ethnographic) was consistently entangled with colonial reconnaissance and administration. The work of Robert H. Schomburgk and William Hilhouse in British Guiana receives close scrutiny. Particul…
The History of Cartography and the History of Science Maps and Politics . Jeremy Black Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World . Jerry Brotton The Mapping of North America: A List of Print…
Insular Visions: Cartographic Imagery and the Spanish‐American War
(1998). Insular Visions: Cartographic Imagery and the Spanish‐American War. The Historian: Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 101-118
The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas
Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature
In Moby-Dick , Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides in one of the great controversies of the early nineteenth century--one that ultimately had to be resolved in the courts of New York City. In Trying Leviathan ,…
It Is Impossible to Make a Step without the Indians: Nineteenth-Century Geographical Exploration and the Amerindians of British Guiana
An effort is made to reveal the multiple functions of early nineteenth-century geographic expeditions into the interior of lowland South America, with an emphasis on the subtle and pervasive ways that"scientific" knowledge (natural historical, gregraphic,ethnographic) was consistently entangled with colonial reconnaissance and administration. The work of Robert H. Schomburgk and William Hilhouse in British Guiana receives close scrutiny. Particul…
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas
Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens Making Machines and Their Significance in the Seventeenth Century
D. Graham Burnett, Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens Making Machines and Their Significance in the Seventeenth Century, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 95, No. 3 (2005), pp. i, iii-v, vii-viii, 1-121, 123-133, 135-143, 145-152
Metafiction and the study of history: Makerly knowledge in the archive
Rapid changes in the context and condition of historical practice (technological, institutional, theoretical) invite practicing historians to entertain experimental techniques for engaging the past: for teaching students; for investigating archives; and for presenting the results of historical inquiry. The authors introduce a form of historically oriented research and writing that shows promise as a way of encouraging genuine immersion in the spe…
The History of Cartography and the History of Science Maps and Politics . Jeremy Black Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World . Jerry Brotton The Mapping of North America: A List of Print…
The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas
Insular Visions: Cartographic Imagery and the Spanish‐American War
(1998). Insular Visions: Cartographic Imagery and the Spanish‐American War. The Historian: Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 101-118
The History of Cartography and the History of Science Maps and Politics . Jeremy Black Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World . Jerry Brotton The Mapping of North America: A List of Print…
It Is Impossible to Make a Step without the Indians: Nineteenth-Century Geographical Exploration and the Amerindians of British Guiana
An effort is made to reveal the multiple functions of early nineteenth-century geographic expeditions into the interior of lowland South America, with an emphasis on the subtle and pervasive ways that"scientific" knowledge (natural historical, gregraphic,ethnographic) was consistently entangled with colonial reconnaissance and administration. The work of Robert H. Schomburgk and William Hilhouse in British Guiana receives close scrutiny. Particul…
Matthew Fontaine Maury's “Sea of Fire”: Hydrography, Biogeography, and Providence in the Tropics
This chapter discusses the hydrographic mapping of Matthew Fontaine Maury. The significance of his mapping methods was important for the development of oceanography and for his particular conception of tropicality. It lay firmly in the tradition of natural theology. But far from being an obstacle, this provided a congenial frame for his Humboldtian vision of science. The chapter also discusses Maury understanding of the earth's tropical zones. Ma…
Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens Making Machines and Their Significance in the Seventeenth Century
D. Graham Burnett, Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens Making Machines and Their Significance in the Seventeenth Century, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 95, No. 3 (2005), pp. i, iii-v, vii-viii, 1-121, 123-133, 135-143, 145-152
Metaphysics, money & the Messiah: A conversation about Melville's “The Confidence-Man”
Michael S. Mahoney, 1939-2008
Perhaps the clearest testimony to the scholarly range and depth of Princeton's now‐lamented Michael S. Mahoney lies in the dismay of his colleagues in the last few years, as they contemplated his imminent retirement. How to maintain coverage of his fields? Fretting over this question, the program in history of science that he did so much to build recently found itself sketching a five-year plan that involved replacing him with no fewer than four …
The Objective Case: A Review of Objectivity
July 01 2010 The Objective Case: A Review of Objectivity D. Graham Burnett D. Graham Burnett D. GRAHAM BURNETT is Professor of History and History of Science at Princeton University and an editor at Cabinet magazine, based in Brooklyn. He is the author of four books, including Trying Leviathan (Princeton University Press, 2007), which won the New York City Book Award in 2008. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Auth…
Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature
In Moby-Dick , Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides in one of the great controversies of the early nineteenth century--one that ultimately had to be resolved in the courts of New York City. In Trying Leviathan ,…
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
Metafiction and the study of history: Makerly knowledge in the archive
Rapid changes in the context and condition of historical practice (technological, institutional, theoretical) invite practicing historians to entertain experimental techniques for engaging the past: for teaching students; for investigating archives; and for presenting the results of historical inquiry. The authors introduce a form of historically oriented research and writing that shows promise as a way of encouraging genuine immersion in the spe…
The Eye and the Mind: Mary Cheves West Perky, Imaginative Phenomenology, and the Historiography of Reverse Hallucination
Revisiting the remarkable experimental work of the pioneering early twentieth-century psychologist Mary Cheves West Perky (1875-1940), this article argues for the historiographical significance of her counterintuitive findings concerning the human imagination and the phenomenon of "reverse hallucination." By means of an exhaustive and forensic archival inquiry, this article reconstructs Perky's heretofore (essentially) unknown biography, providin…
Qu’est-ce qu’un sanctuaire attentionnel
Cet article appelle à la création de nouveaux sanctuaires pour cultiver de nouvelles normes et habitudes communes concernant les appareils numériques. Les preuves suggèrent que ces sanctuaires attentionnels (et la formalisation des conventions pour créer de tels espaces) joueront un rôle de plus en plus important dans la gestion/l’atténuation des dimensions de santé publique et de bien-être des plateformes numériques à l’échelle sociale
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