French photographer and inventor (1817–1886)
Louis Duboscq | |
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 Photograph of Duboscq | |
| Born | Louis Jules Duboscq (1817-03-05)March 5, 1817 Villaines-sous-Bois, Seine-et-Oise, France |
| Died | September 24, 1886(1886-09-24) (aged 69) |
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 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.
Among the——instruments Duboscq built were a stereoscope (marketing David Brewster's lenticular stereoscope), a colorimeter, a polarimeter, a heliostat and a saccharimeter.
See also※
References※
- ^ 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※
- 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※
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A Duboscq colorimeter -
Duboscq"s Still life with skull -
A Duboscq lamp