| LC control no. | n 50022091 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806 |
| Variant(s) | Bannaker, Benj. (Benjamin), 1731-1806 Bannaker, Benjamin, 1731-1806 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1731-11-09 |
| Death date | 1806-10-19 |
| Place of birth | Oella (Md.) |
| Place of death | Baltimore County (Md.) |
| Field of activity | Science Agriculture |
| Affiliation | William Goddard and James Angell (Firm) |
| Profession or occupation | Astronomers Farmers Authors Publishers and publishing African American scientists African American farmers |
| Found in | What are you figuring now, 1988: t.p. (Benjamin Banneker) Bannaker's New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia almanac, or, Ephemeris, for the year of our Lord ... 1795: cover (Mounted label: Benj. Bannaker, the learned Maryland Negro) Banneker's almanack, and ephemeris, for the year of Our Lord ... 1969: p. [1] (Benjamin Banneker, Surveyor and astronomer ... last name variously spelled ... Publisher of almanacs, surveyor and clockmaker) English Wikipedia website, viewed Sept. 6, 2012 (Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 - October 9, 1806) was a free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland to a free African-American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little formal education and was largely self-taught; scientist, surveyor, almanac author, farmer; died in Baltimore County, Maryland) African American National Biography, accessed December 13, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Banneker, Benjamin; astronomer, farmer, author; born 09 November 1731 in Oella, Baltimore County, Maryland; he had no formal education; farmed tobacco (1759-1775); taught himself to calculate an ephemeris for an almanac for the next year and to make projections of lunar and solar eclipses; his skills came to the attention of Major Andrew Ellicott (1791); accompanied Major Ellicott to Alexandria, Virginia and installed in the-field observatory tent where he was to maintain the astronomical field clock and use other instruments (1791); spent his leisure hours calculating the ephemeris for an almanac (1792), his calculations were published as Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Almanack and Ephemeris, for the Year of Our Lord by Baltimore printers Goddard & Angel (1792); a second edition was produced by the Philadelphia printer William Young; promoted by the abolitionist societies of Pennsylvania and Maryland, the almanac sold in great numbers; died 19 October 1806 in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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