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Jules Duboscq

Jules Duboscq

French photographer and inventor (1817–1886)

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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Life and work

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

References

  1. [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. [2]
    Duboscq, J. and Mene, C., Compt. Rend., 1886, volume 67, pages 1330 – 1331
  3. [3]
    "Soleil and Duboscq's saccharimeter". YouTube. 15 June 2012. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.

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  • A Duboscq colorimeter
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