Giuseppe Asclepi

Giuseppe Maria Asclepi (1706–1776) was an Italian astronomer and physician. He was a Jesuit and director of the observatory at the Collegio Romano.

The lunar crater Asclepi is named after him.

Works

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Tentamen novae de odoribus theorie, Siena, 1749.
Lettera sopra l'oriuolo ultramontano (in Italian). Siena. Bonetti. 1750.
De veneris per solem transitu exercitatio astronomica habita in Collegio Romano, Rome, 1761.
De motum gravium rectilineo, Rome, 1762-1763.
De objectivi micrometri usu in planetarum diametris metiendis. Exercitatio optico-astronomica habita in Collegio Romano a Patribus Societatis Jesu, Rome, 1765.
De nova et facili methodo elevandi Mercurium in tubis ad altitudinem consuetam maiorem (in Latin). Rome. Giovanni Generoso Salomoni. 1767.
De cometarum motu exercitatio astronomica habita in collegio Romano patribus Societatis Jesu.Prid.Non.Septem, Rome, 1769.

De nova et facili methodo elevandi Mercurium in tubis ad altitudinem consuetam maiorem, 1767