Giuseppe Asclepi Explained

Giuseppe Maria Asclepi (1706–1776) was an Italian astronomer and physician. He was a Jesuit and director of the observatory at the Collegio Romano.^{[1] [2]}

The lunar crater Asclepi is named after him.

Works

• Nuova proprietà delle potenze de 'numeri
• Tentamen novae de odoribus theorie, Siena, 1749.
• Book: Lettera sopra l'oriuolo ultramontano. Siena. Bonetti. it. 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.
• Book: De nova et facili methodo elevandi Mercurium in tubis ad altitudinem consuetam maiorem. Rome. Giovanni Generoso Salomoni. la. 1767.
• De cometarum motu exercitatio astronomica habita in collegio Romano patribus Societatis Jesu.Prid.Non.Septem, Rome, 1769.

See also

• List of Jesuit scientists
• List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics

Notes and References

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