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 John L. Heilbron.) (See Galileo Galilei.) The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution (2015):Peter Barker, "Wootton and Wittgenstein", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 84 (2020), 95-98, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2020.08.007. finalist for the Cundill History Prize, 2016. Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison (2018)Soll, Jacob (2020), review of Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison, The American Historical Review, Volume 125, Issue 4, Pages 1496–1497, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz676
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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.