The life of Benjamin Banneker / Silvio A. Bedini.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Scribner, [1971]Copyright date: ©1972Description: xvii, 434 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0684125749
  • 9780684125749
  • 0684134985
  • 9780684134987
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Life of Benjamin Banneker.; Online version:: Life of Benjamin Banneker.
Contents:
The heritage and the land -- Home and family -- Friends and neighbors -- Work and study -- The great adventure -- His first almanac -- The years of fulfillment -- Scientific considerations -- The final years -- The man remembered.
Summary: Originally published by Scribner in 1972 to wide praise and critical acclaim, Silvio Bedini's work remains the definitive biography of Benjamin Banneker, the self-educated mathematician and astronomer who became America's first black scientist. Born a free man in Maryland in 1731, he had little formal education but developed a remarkable aptitude for mathematics. He assisted in surveying the area that was to become the District of Columbia, but his real achievement came with the creation of almanacs. Through much of the 1790s, his work influenced daily life in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. In 1791 he took up his pen and wrote to Thomas Jefferson, arguing that the treatment of blacks in the young United States was unwarranted and unfair.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QB36.B22 B4 1972 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000042446

Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-406).

The heritage and the land -- Home and family -- Friends and neighbors -- Work and study -- The great adventure -- His first almanac -- The years of fulfillment -- Scientific considerations -- The final years -- The man remembered.

Originally published by Scribner in 1972 to wide praise and critical acclaim, Silvio Bedini's work remains the definitive biography of Benjamin Banneker, the self-educated mathematician and astronomer who became America's first black scientist. Born a free man in Maryland in 1731, he had little formal education but developed a remarkable aptitude for mathematics. He assisted in surveying the area that was to become the District of Columbia, but his real achievement came with the creation of almanacs. Through much of the 1790s, his work influenced daily life in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. In 1791 he took up his pen and wrote to Thomas Jefferson, arguing that the treatment of blacks in the young United States was unwarranted and unfair.

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Biography of Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) in Baltimore Marland, widely considered the first african american scientist, an assistant to Ellicot, and a selftaught clockmaker.

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