Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob (sold)
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (August 2, 1672 - June 23 1733) was a Swiss naturalist and physician. He was born in Zurich to an academic family and educated as a physician. In addition, he studied mathematics and astronomy. Upon completion of his studies, he became Zurich's town physician, a professor of mathematics, and a lecturer in philosophy. He was broadly published and a vigorous correspondent; he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703, mainly on the strength of his studies on fossils. He produced a natural history of Switzerland, and as an alpinist, traveled throughout the country. His strictly historical writings were never published, but survive in manuscript. He is further known for his Biblical commentary, Physica Sacra, a reconciliation of science and religion; also, his Natural History of Switzerland, which he published in three volumes between 1706 and 1708. His Itinera Alpina, published in the 1720s, was among the first detailed descriptions of the Alpine landscape. He is known to have produced one map, the four-sheet Nova Helvetiae Tabula Geographica, published in the wake of the 1712 Toggenburg War. The map was influential and copied shortly after by Pieter Schenk, Covens and Mortier, and others.
Grandest, Most Beautiful Map of Switzerland of the 18th Century.
Nova Helvetiae Tabula Geographica Illustrissimis et Potentissimis Cantonibus et Rebuspublicis Reformatae Religionis Tigurinae, Bernensi Scaphusianae, Abbatis Cellanae...
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This is Johann Jacob Scheuchzer's four-sheet map of Switzerland in its spectacular 1715 Pieter Schenk Amsterdam edition. Map historian Tony Campbell wrote, 'Its borders make it probably the most handsome map ever produced of Switzerland; yet the carefully labeled tableaux were intended as scientific illustrations, not just decoration.' Schenk's edition is brighter and more legible than the Zurich edition. (more details)