David Wootton (historian)
David Richard John Wootton (born 15 January 1952) is a British historian.
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| Born | 15 January 1952 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Balliol, Oxford Peterhouse, Cambridge (MA, Ph.D.) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | History, 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)
- Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison (2018)
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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)
- The Fable of the Bees — In Our Time (October 2018)
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