Louis Jules Duboscq (March 5, 1817 – September 24, 1886) was a French instrument maker, inventor, and pioneering photographer. He was known in his time, and is remembered today, for the high quality of his optical instruments.

Louis Duboscq
Photograph of Duboscq
Born
Louis Jules Duboscq

(1817-03-05)March 5, 1817
DiedSeptember 24, 1886(1886-09-24) (aged 69)

Life and work

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Duboscq was born at Villaines-sous-Bois (Seine-et-Oise) in 1817. He was apprenticed in 1834 to Jean-Baptiste-François Soleil (1798–1878), a prominent instrument maker, and he married one of Soleil's daughters, Rosalie Jeanne Josephine, in 1839.[1]

Among the instruments Duboscq built were a stereoscope (marketing David Brewster's lenticular stereoscope), a colorimeter,[2] a polarimeter, a heliostat and a saccharimeter.[3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Herbert, Steven (2008). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Photography. New York: Routledge. pp. 445–446. ISBN 978-0-415-97235-2. – Edited by John Hannavy
  2. ^ Duboscq, J. and Mene, C., Compt. Rend., 1886, volume 67, pages 1330 – 1331
  3. ^ "Soleil and Duboscq's saccharimeter". YouTube. 15 June 2012. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.

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