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. 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 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 1706 births 1776 deaths 18th-century Italian astronomers 18th-century Italian Jesuits 18th-century Italian physicians Jesuit scientists