Stereoscopic portrait daguerreotype of Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862).

PART OF:
Three stereoscopic portrait daguerreotypes of French physicists
Made:
Paris
maker:
Jules Duboscq

Stereoscopic portrait daguerreotype of Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862).

Biot was a physicist, astronomer, and mathematician. He established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Object Number:
1876-524/1
type:
daguerreotype and photograph