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
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Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates' (2006)
''Galileo: Watcher of the Skies''(2010) (See
Galileo Galilei
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''The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution''(2015): finalist for the
Cundill History Prize, 2016.
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Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison' (2018)
References
External links
Contributionsat the ''
London Review of Books
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History
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Contributionsat 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''— ''
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List of In Our Time Programmes
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1952 births
Living people
Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge
21st-century British historians