Giuseppe Maria Asclepi (1706–1776) was an Italian
astronomer
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and
physician
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. He was a
Jesuit
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and director of the
observatory
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at the
Collegio Romano.
The
lunar crater
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History
The wor ...
Asclepi is named after him.
Works
* ''Nuova proprietà delle potenze de 'numeri''
* ''Tentamen novae de odoribus theorie'', Siena, 1749.
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* ''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.
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* ''De cometarum motu exercitatio astronomica habita in collegio Romano patribus Societatis Jesu.Prid.Non.Septem'', Rome, 1769.
File:Asclepi, Giuseppe – De nova et facili methodo elevandi Mercurium in tubis ad altitudinem consuetam maiorem, 1767 – BEIC 11369929.jpg, ''De nova et facili methodo elevandi Mercurium in tubis ad altitudinem consuetam maiorem'', 1767
See also
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List of Jesuit scientists
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List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics
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People
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Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
1706 births
1776 deaths
18th-century Italian astronomers
18th-century Italian Jesuits
18th-century Italian physicians
Jesuit scientists
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