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Benjamin Banneker, genius of early America

1978
A biography of the distinguished eighteenth-century African-American astronomer, farmer, mathematician, and surveyor whose accomplishments include having published a popular almanac and constructed the first completely American-made clock.

Benjamin Banneker

2006
Presents a short biography of African-American surveyor and author, Benjamin Banneker, who helped to survey the land for the U.S. Capitol.

Benjamin Banneker

1989
A biography of the eighteenth-century African-American tobacco farmer who taught himself mathematics, astronomy, and clockmaking; became famous for his almanacs; and assisted in the original survey of Washington, D.C.

Benjamin Banneker

American mathematician and astronomer
2000
A biography of the eighteenth-century African American who taught himself mathematics and astronomy and helped survey what would become Washington, D.C.

Benjamin Banneker

pioneering scientist
2003
Introduces Benjamin Banneker, a free black man of the eighteenth century who loved to learn and used his knowledge and observations to build a wooden clock, write an almanac, and help survey the streets of Washington, D.C.

Benjamin Banneker

scientist
1993
Contains information, in simple rhyming text with color illustrations, on the life and work of, Benjamin Banneker, the African-American scientist, astronomer, surveyor, and almanac publisher. Includes glossary.

What are you figuring now?

a story about Benjamin Banneker
1988
A biography of the African-American farmer and self-taught mathematician, astronomer, and surveyor for the new capital city of the United States in 1791, who also calculated a successful almanac notable for its preciseness.

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