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Hugh Blackburn, seen here in caricature, was Professor of Mathematics at Glasgow University for thirty years from 1849 to 1879. Whilst an undergraduate at Cambridge he designed a form of double pendulum, described in section below, which bears his name. This device was used to investigate harmonic intervals.
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Gray, I. (2017). Hugh Blackburn (1823 to 1909). In: Snake Charming - The Musical Python. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60660-6_10
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