Louis Duboscq | |
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Born | Louis Jules Duboscq March 5, 1817
Villaines-sous-Bois,
Seine-et-Oise, France |
Died | September 24, 1886 | (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.
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]
Louis Duboscq | |
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Born | Louis Jules Duboscq March 5, 1817
Villaines-sous-Bois,
Seine-et-Oise, France |
Died | September 24, 1886 | (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.
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]