David Wootton (historian)

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.)
• 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 London Review of Books
• 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.