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).

Anniversary Professor David Wootton FRHistS
Born	(1952-01-15) 15 January 1952 (age 73) Winchester, Hampshire, England
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford Peterhouse, Cambridge (MA, Ph.D.)
Scientific career
Fields	History, Intellectual history, Cultural history, History of political thought

Books

• Paolo Sarpi: Between Renaissance and Enlightenment (1983)^[1] 2002 pbk edition; (See Paolo Sarpi.)
• Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates (2006)^[2]
• Galileo: Watcher of the Skies (2010)^[3] (See Galileo Galilei.)
• The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution (2015):^[4][5] finalist for the Cundill History Prize, 2016.
• Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison (2018)^[6][7]