Jules Duboscq

French photographer and inventor (1817–1886)

Louis Duboscq
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.^[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]

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.