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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

• See also

• References

• Further reading

• External links

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.cite-ref-1[1]

Among the instruments Duboscq built were a stereoscope (marketing David Brewster's lenticular stereoscope), a colorimeter,cite-ref-2[2] a polarimeter, a heliostat and a saccharimeter.cite-ref-3[3]

• Colorimetry (chemical method)

cite-note-11. ↑ citerefherbert-steven2008Herbert, Steven (2008). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Photography. New York: Routledge. pp. 445–446. ISBN 978-0-415-97235-2. – Edited by John Hannavy

cite-note-22. ↑ Duboscq, J. and Mene, C., Compt. Rend., 1886, volume 67, pages 1330 – 1331

cite-note-33. ↑ "Soleil and Duboscq's saccharimeter". YouTube. 15 June 2012. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.

• citerefbrenni-paolo1996Brenni, Paolo (1996). "19th Century French Scientific Instrument Makers. XIII: Soleil, Duboscq, and Their Successors" (PDF). Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society (51): 7–16.

• citerefrosenfeld-louis1999Rosenfeld, Louis (1999). Four Centuries of Clinical Chemistry. CRC Press. pp. 255–260. ISBN 978-90-5699-645-1.

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