Johann Caspar Horner (1734–1834) was a Swiss physicist and astronomer.
In 1805 Johann Caspar Horner visited Japan with the Prussian Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, as a scientist to the Krusenstern mission that also brought the Russian ambassador Nikolai Rezanov to Japan.
Horner made a hot air balloon out of Japanese paper (washi), and made a demonstration in front of about 30 Japanese delegates. This followed the first flight of a hot air balloon by the brothers Montgolfier in France in 1783.
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“Little Jack Horner
Sat in the corner,
Eating a Christmas pie;
He put in his thumb,
And pulled out a plum,
And said, What a good boy am I!”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. Little Jack Horner (l. 1–6)