Author : Andrea Davis Pinkney
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 11,64 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0152018921
Banneker, a free black mathematician and astronomer, takes a stand against slavery and writes Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson about his slave-owning policies.
Author : Charles A. Cerami
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 13,59 MB
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0470303611
The first biography of a major figure in early US and African American history A household name and unparalleled hero revered in every African American household, Benjamin Banneker was a completely self-taught mathematical genius who achieved professional status in astronomy, navigation, and engineering. His acknowledged expertise and superior surveying skills led to his role as coworker with the Founding Fathers in planning our nation’s capitol, Washington, DC. His annual Banneker’s Almanac was the first written by a black and outsold the major competition. In addition, he was a vocal force in the fight for the abolition of slavery. Yet, despite his accomplishments, there has been no biography of this important man—until now. Written by an author with strong ties across the Washington-Maryland-Virginia area where abolitionist societies revered Banneker, this long overdue biography at last gives the hard-earned attention this prominent hero and his accomplishments deserve.
Author : Ginger Wadsworth
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,32 MB
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 157505714X
True or False? Benjamin Banneker used a telescope and mathematics to predict a solar eclipse. True! In 1789, Banneker calculated when the moon would pass between the earth and sun. And he did it without any formal math or science training. As a young boy, he worked on the farm owned by his father, who was a freed slave in Maryland. He helped to survey and plot out the site for the U.S. capital city, Washington, D.C. He also published several almanacs that helped farmers, merchants, and sailors predict the weather and know the dates of holidays and festivals.
Author : Silvio A. Bedini
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The biography of the great black American scientist and abolitionist who wrote an almanac and helped survey Washington.
Author : Lillie Patterson
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A biography of the distinguished eighteenth-century black astronomer, farmer, mathematician, and surveyor whose accomplishments include having published a popular almanac and constructed the first completely American-made clock.
Author : Shana Keller
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 31,62 MB
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1627539654
Throughout his life, Benjamin Banneker was known and admired for his work in science, mathematics, and astronomy, just to name a few pursuits. But even when he was born in Maryland in 1731, he was already an extraordinary person for that time period. He was born free at a time in America when most African Americans were slaves. Though he only briefly attended school and was largely self-taught, at a young age Benjamin displayed a keen aptitude for mathematics and science. Inspired by a pocket watch he had seen, at the age of 22 he built a strike clock based on his own drawings and using a pocket-knife. This picture book biography focuses on one episode in a remarkable life.
Author : Alice McGill
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780395722879
Relates how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant, began a farm of her own, and married a freed slave.
Author : Allison Lassieur
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736854320
"An introduction to the life of Benjamin Banneker, the African American astronomer and mathematician who helped survey Washington, D.C., and who wrote several successful almanacs"--Title page verso.
Author : Erika Wittekind
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1629699365
This title is a brief, yet informative, biography on Benjamin Banneker. Readers will learn about Banneker's early life, personal life, and all about his contributions to science, surveying, the Farmers' Almanac, and for his campaign against slavery. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Melissa Maupin
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
The Journey to Freedom (R) series provides comprehensive information and honest portrayals of key African-American people and events, illuminating achievements and contributions that have shaped the history of our nation-and our world. Book jacket.
