David Wootton

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)