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
Seine-et-Oise () is a former department of France, which encompassed the western, northern and southern parts of the metropolitan area of Paris. Its prefecture was Versailles and its administrative number was 78. Seine-et-Oise was disbanded in ...
) 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
A stereoscope is a device for viewing a stereoscopy, stereoscopic pair of separate images, depicting left-eye and right-eye views of the same scene, as a single three-dimensional image.
A typical stereoscope provides each eye with a lens that ...
(marketing
David Brewster
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's lenticular stereoscope), a
colorimeter, a
polarimeter
A polarimeter is a scientific instrument used to measure optical rotation: the angle of rotation caused by passing linearly polarized light through an Optical activity, optically active substance.
Some chemical substances are optically active, ...
, a
heliostat
A heliostat
()
is a device that reflects sunlight toward a target, turning to compensate for the Sun's apparent motion.
The reflector is usually a plane mirror.
The target may be a physical object, distant from the heliostat, or a direct ...
and a
saccharimeter.
See also
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Colorimetry (chemical method)
References
Further reading
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External links
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