Benjamin Banneker
Subtitle: astronomer and mathematician
By: Laura Baskes Litwin.
Contributors: Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806.
Series: African-American biographies
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806 -- Juvenile literature; Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806; Astronomers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; African American scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Astronomers; African Americans -- Biography
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography; Biography.
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. 100-109) and index.