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French instrument maker, inventor and photographer
A.K.A.
J. Duboscq, Louis Jules Duboscq-Soleil, J. Duboscq-Soleil, Louis-Jules Duboscq, Louis Jules Duboscq, Louis Jean Duboscq
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Male
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Birth:
5 March 1817(Villaines-sous-Bois, France)
Death:
24 September 1886(Paris, France)
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The details
Biography
Introduction
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, a polarimeter, a heliostat and a saccharimeter.