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

Born (1952-01-15) 15 January 1952
NationalityBritish
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
Peterhouse, Cambridge (MA, Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsHistory, Intellectual history, Cultural history, History of political thought

Books

  • Paolo Sarpi: Between Renaissance and Enlightenment (1983)
  • Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates (2006)
  • Galileo: Watcher of the Skies (2010)
  • 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)
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