Banneker, the Afric-American astronomer
Subtitle: from the posthumous papers of Martha E. Tyson
By: edited by her daughter
Contributors: Kirk, Anne T. (Anne Tyson), 1825-1884, editor, writer of introduction; Friends' Book Association of Philadelphia
Publisher: Friends' Book Association, No. 1020 Arch Street
Published: 1884
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Copyright date: 1884
Subjects: Astronomers; Biography; Mathematicians; African American farmers; African American scientists; Women as authors
Notes: "Afric-American" appears on title page and in entire book.

Introduction signed: "A.T.K." [i.e. Anne Tyson Kirk].
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Ancestry; title: Difficult circumstances through which Banneker's genius struggled; title: His delight in mechanics, makes himself a clock; title: Ellicott family; title: Astronomical studies, letter to George Ellicott; title: Assisted in survey of the Federal Territory; title: Calculates an almanac; title: Letter to Thomas Jefferson; title: Banneker's first almanac published; title: Mathematical problems; title: Scientific and natural history notes, etc.; title: Old age and death.