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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 Jules Duboscq
Image:Duboscq colorimeter 1870.jpg , A Duboscq colorimeter
Image:Duboscq Jules Still life with skull.jpg , Duboscq"s ''Still life with skull''
Image:Duboscq lamp.jpg , A Duboscq lamp
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19th-century French inventors
Pioneers of photography
19th-century French photographers
1817 births
1886 deaths
Photographers from Paris
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. Among the instruments Duboscq built were a stereoscope (marketing David Brewster's lenticular stereoscope), a colorimeter, apolarimeter
A polarimeter is a scientific instrument used to measure the angle of rotation caused by passing polarized light through an optically active substance.heliostat
A heliostat (from '' helios'', the Greek word for ''sun'', and ''stat'', as in stationary) is a device that includes a mirror, usually a plane mirror, which turns so as to keep reflecting sunlight toward a predetermined target, compensating ...
and a saccharimeter.See also
* Colorimetry (chemical method)References
Further reading
* *External links
Louis Jules Duboscq