Benjamin banneker biography mathematicians
Benjamin banneker solar eclipse.
Banneker, Benjamin
(b. Baltimore County, Maryland, 9 November 1731; d.
Benjamin banneker biography mathematicians
Baltimore County, 9 October 1806)
observational astronomy, ephemerides, almanacs.
A tobacco farmer, and amateur astronomer, Benjamin Banneker was an inspiration for his mathematical achievements. He is frequently described as the first African American man of science.
Early Life. Banneker was born free in Baltimore County, Maryland, on 9 November 1731.
He was the son of a freed slave from Guinea named Robert and of Mary Banneky, daughter of a formerly indentured English servant named Molly Welsh and her husband, Bannka, a slave whom she freed and who claimed to be the son of a Gold Coast tribal chief.
Banneker’s early years were spent with his family, including three sisters, growing tobacco on his parents’ 100-acre farm near the banks of the Patapsco River.
In his early years he had been trained to read and write by his grandmother by means of a Bible she had purchased from England, but his only fo