Johann Caspar Scheuchzer

Not to be confused with Johann Gaspar Scheuchzer, the uncle of the subject of this article.

Frontispiece of History of Japan, translated by Scheuchzer, 1727
The first map of Edo produced in Europe – Scheuchzer based it on a Japanese woodblock print. History of Japan, 1727, Tab XXX
A mortality table from Scheuchzer's An account of the success of inoculating the small-pox in Great Britain, for the years 1727 and 1728 (1729)

Johann Caspar Scheuchzer, (26 January 1702 – 21 April 1729; also known as Hans Kaspar and Jean Gaspard) was a Swiss naturalist, physician and writer on the history and culture of Japan