Benjamin Banneker, genius of early America
By: Lillie Patterson ; illustrated by David Scott Brown.
Contributors: Brown, David Scott.
Publisher: Abingdon
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Nashville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806; Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806; Astronomers -- United States -- Biography; Astronomers; African Americans -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: A biography of the distinguished eighteenth-century black astronomer, farmer, mathematician, and surveyor whose accomplishments include having published a popular almanac and constructed the first completely American-made clock.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 141-142.