David Wootton (historian)

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David Wootton
Born (1952-01-15) 15 January 1952 (age 72)
NationalityBritish
Alma materBalliol, Oxford
Peterhouse, Cambridge (MA, Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsHistory, Intellectual history, Cultural history, History of political thought

David Richard John Wootton (born 15 January 1952) is a British historian.

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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