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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. 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. 1767 – via Giovanni Generoso Salomoni.
  • 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 De nova et facili methodo elevandi Mercurium in tubis ad altitudinem consuetam maiorem, 1767

See also

References

  1. Udias, Agustin (2003-10-31). Searching the Heavens and the Earth: The History of Jesuit Observatories. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-4020-1189-4.
  2. Udías, Agustín (2014-09-27). Jesuit Contribution to Science: A History. Springer. p. 16. ISBN 978-3-319-08365-0.


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