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.
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| Born | Louis Jules Duboscq March 5, 1817 Villaines-sous-Bois, Seine-et-Oise, France |
| Died | September 24, 1886 (aged 69) |
Life and work
editDuboscq 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
editReferences
edit- ^ Herbert, Steven (2008). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Photography. New York: Routledge. pp. 445–446. ISBN 978-0-415-97235-2. – Edited by John Hannavy
- ^ Duboscq, J. and Mene, C., Compt. Rend., 1886, volume 67, pages 1330 – 1331
- ^ "Soleil and Duboscq's saccharimeter". YouTube. 15 June 2012. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.
Further reading
edit- Brenni, Paolo (1996). "19th Century French Scientific Instrument Makers. XIII: Soleil, Duboscq, and Their Successors" (PDF). Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society (51): 7–16.
- Rosenfeld, Louis (1999). Four Centuries of Clinical Chemistry. CRC Press. pp. 255–260. ISBN 978-90-5699-645-1.
External links
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Jules Duboscq.
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A Duboscq colorimeter
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Duboscq"s Still life with skull
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A Duboscq lamp
