Benjamin Banneker: Mathematician and Stargazer by Rose Blue, Corinne J. Naden

Benjamin Banneker: Mathematician and Stargazer

Rose Blue, Corinne J. Naden

48 pages first pub 2001 (view editions)

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Benjamin Banneker, a free African-American man, was born in Maryland in 1731. Largely a self-educated farmer, he became a mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer, and surveyor. In 1761 he built a wooden clock by hand that kept precise time. He...

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