Jules Duboscq
French instrument maker, inventor and photographer
About Jules Duboscq
Lived 1817 – 1886 (aged 69). Jules Duboscq was a French photographer, instrument maker, physicist and optical engineer.
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) 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.
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Who was Jules Duboscq?
French instrument maker, inventor and photographer (1817–1886)
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Jules Duboscq was born on 5 March 1817 in Villaines-sous-Bois.
When did Jules Duboscq die?
Jules Duboscq died on 24 September 1886 in Paris.
What was Jules Duboscq's occupation?
Jules Duboscq was a photographer, instrument maker, physicist and optical engineer.
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Jules Duboscq was French.
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