David Richard John Wootton (born 15 January 1952) is a British historian. He is Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York. He has given the Raleigh Lecture at the British Academy (2008); the Carlyle Lectures at the University of Oxford (2014); the Benedict Lectures at Boston University (2014); and the Besterman Lecture at Oxford University (2017).

Books

* ''Paolo Sarpi: Between Renaissance and Enlightenment'' (1983
2002 pbk edition
(See Paolo Sarpi.) *
Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
' (2006)
''Galileo: Watcher of the Skies''
(2010) (See

Galileo Galilei Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei ( , , ) or mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a poly ...

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''The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution''
(2015): finalist for the Cundill History Prize, 2016. *
Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison
' (2018)

References

External links

Contributions
at the ''

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Contributions
at the '' TLS''
Interview in ''The Guardian'' about ''Bad Medicine'' and the development of medicine (April 2008)

''Machiavelli: Devil or Democrat?'' on Radio 4 (November 2013)

Lecture on ''Galileo'' (January 2015)

Besterman Lecture on Adam Smith and famine (May 2017)

Lecture on Virtue (May 2019)

''The Fable of the Bees''
— '' In Our Time'' (October 2018). For numerous other appearance on In Our Time, see List of In Our Time Programmes. {{DEFAULTSORT:Wootton, David 1952 births Living people Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge 21st-century British historians Fellows of the Royal Historical Society