Hinman, Bonnie.

Benjamin Banneker : American mathematician and astronomer / Bonnie Hinman ; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., senior consulting editor. - Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2000. - 79 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm. - Colonial leaders .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 75) and index.

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

0791053482 : $18.95

99024118


Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806.


Astronomers--Biography.
African American scientists--Biography.

QB36.B22 / H56 2000

520/.92 B