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 [ edit ]

Duboscq was born at Villaines-sous-Bois ( Seine-et-Oise ) in 1817. He was apprenticed in 1834 to Jean-Baptiste-Francois 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 [ edit ]

• Colorimetry (chemical method)

References [ edit ]

Further reading [ edit ]

• 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 .

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  A Duboscq colorimeter
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  Duboscq"s Still life with skull
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  A Duboscq lamp