The Life of Benjamin Banneker
Author: Silvio A. Bedini
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe biography of the great black American scientist and abolitionist who wrote an almanac and helped survey Washington.
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Dear Benjamin Banneker
Author: Andrea Davis Pinkney
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 0152018921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBanneker, a free black mathematician and astronomer, takes a stand against slavery and writes Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson about his slave-owning policies.
Benjamin Banneker
Author: Charles A. Cerami
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2008-04-21
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 0470303611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Benjamin Banneker
Author: Ginger Wadsworth
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Published: 2003-08-01
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 157505714X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrue 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.
Molly Bannaky
Author: Alice McGill
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780395722879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelates 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.
Ticktock Banneker's Clock
Author: Shana Keller
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Published: 2016-09-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1627539654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout 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.
Benjamin Banneker: Brilliant Surveyor, Mathematician, and Astronomer
Author: Erika Wittekind
Publisher: ABDO
Published: 2015-08-01
Total Pages: 51
ISBN-13: 1629699365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
A Sketch of the Life of Benjamin Banneker; from Notes Taken in 1836, Etc. [By Martha E. Tyson.]
Author: Maryland Historical Society (BALTIMORE)
Publisher:
Published: 1854
Total Pages: 20
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMemoir of Benjamin Banneker
Author: John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe
Publisher:
Published: 1845
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Life of Benjamin Banneker
Author: Laura Baskes Litwin
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2014-09
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 0766061140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of free African American Benjamin Banneker, who, despite growing up in a time of slavery, pushed through to make his dream of being an astronomer come true.
