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Dilwyn Knox

Emeritus Professor, School of European Languages, Culture and Society, University College London

Fellow, Society of Fellows, SOF/Heyman, Columbia University (1985–1987)

Dr. Dilwyn Knox’s research interests are in Renaissance Studies, particularly Renaissance philosophy and learning, education, cosmology and Copernicanism. He has published articles and books in these fields and has won various fellowships, research awards and travel grants in the UK, Germany and the USA. Over the past decade or so, Dr. Knox’s research has focused on cosmology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, with special focus on Copernicus.