David Wootton (historian) explained

Honorific Prefix:	Anniversary Professor
Honorific Suffix:	FRHistS
David Wootton
Birth Date:	15 January 1952
Birth Place:	Winchester, Hampshire, England
Nationality:	British
Fields:	History, Intellectual history, Cultural history, History of political thought
Alma Mater:	Balliol College, Oxford Peterhouse, Cambridge (MA, Ph.D.)

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)^[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]}

References

1. Reviewed Work: Paolo Sarpi, Between Renaissance and Enlightenment by David Wootton. Coleman, Janet. Janet Coleman. History of Political Thought. 7. 3. Winter 1986. 579–581. 26213321.
2. 10.1136/bmj.333.7568.606. Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates. 2006. McClure. Iain. BMJ. 333. 7568. 606. 1569979.
3. News: Gingerich, Owen. Owen Gingerich. December 24, 2010. NY Times. Starry Messenger (joint review of Galileo by J. L. Heilbron and Galileo: Watcher of the Skies by David Wootton). (See John L. Heilbron.)
4. 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.
5. News: The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton review — a big bang moment. Daston, Lorraine. Lorraine Daston. The Guardian. 28 November 2015.
6. 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
7. 10.1086/713860. Review of Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison by David Wootton. 2021. Matytsin. Anton M.. The Journal of Modern History. 93. 2. 440–442. 236331692.

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.