Jules Duboscq

Louis Jules Dubosq (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.^[1]

Among the instruments Duboscq built were a stereoscope, a colorimeter ^[2], a polarimeter, and a heliostat.

See also

• Colorimetry (chemical method)

References

1. ^ Herbert, Steven (2008). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Photography. New York: Routledge. pp. 445–446. ISBN 9780415972352. http://books.google.com/?id=PJ8DHBay4_EC&pg=PA445&dq=Hannavy+Duboscq.  – Edited by John Hannavy
2. ^ Duboscq, J. and Mene, C., Compt. Rend., 1886, volume 67, pages 1330 – 1331

Further reading

• Brenni, Paolo (1996). "19th Century French Scientific Instrument Makers. XIII: Soleil, Duboscq, and Their Successors". Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society (51): 7–16. http://www.uvm.edu/~dahammon/museum/Soleil-Duboscqhistory.pdf. 

• Rosenfeld, Louis (1999). Four Centuries of Clinical Chemistry. CRC Press. pp. 255–260. ISBN 9789056996451. http://books.google.com/?id=KPX6Yvax9jkC&pg=PA255&dq=Jules+Duboscq+Rosenfeld. 

• Stock, John T. (1994). "The Duboscq Colorimeter and Its Inventor". Journal of Chemical Education 71: 967–970. doi:10.1021/ed071p967. http://search.jce.divched.org/JCEIndex/FMPro?-db=jceindex.fp5&-lay=wwwform&combo=Duboscq%20Colorimeter&-find=&-format=detail.html&-skip=0&-max=1&-token.2=0&-token.3=10. 

• Warner, Deborah Jean (2006). "The Duboscq Colorimeter". Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society (88): 68–70. http://www.sis.org.uk/bulletin/88/Warner.pdf. 

External links

• Louis Jules Duboscq