title: David Wootton (historian)
text: # 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).
  
  ## 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 Galileo Galilei.)
  * 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)
  