Benjamin Banneker
Subtitle: American mathematician and astronomer
By: Bonnie Hinman ; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., senior consulting editor
Contributors: Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007
Series: Colonial leaders
Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9780791056912; 9780791053485; 9780613977302
Subjects: Astronomers; Juvenile literature; African American scientists; Biography; African Americans
Description: A biography of the eighteenth-century African American who taught himself mathematics and astronomy and helped survey what would become Washington, D.C.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 75) and index.