Giuseppe Asclepi
Italian astronomer and physician
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
Nuova proprietà delle potenze de 'numeri
Tentamen novae de odoribus theorie, Siena, 1749.
Lettera sopra l'oriuolo ultramontano (in Italian). Siena. 1750 – via Bonetti.
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.
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