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Louis Jules Dubosq

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.

Life and work

Duboscq was born at 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, and a heliostat.

See also

References

  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

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