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William Kingdon Clifford FRS (4 May 1845 - 3 March 1879) was an English mathematician and philosopher.
He was the first to suggest that gravitation might be a manifestation of an underlying geometry.
In 1870, he was part of an expedition to Italy to observe an eclipse, and survived a shipwreck along the Sicilian coast.
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