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Genre/Form: | Biographies Juvenile works Juvenile literature Biography Juvenile literature Biography |
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Named Person: | Benjamin Banneker; Benjamin Banneker; Benjamin Banneker |
Material Type: | Biography, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kevin Conley |
ISBN: | 0717285561 9780717285563 |
OCLC Number: | 23013346 |
Notes: | Cover title: Benjamin Banneker, scientist and mathematician. |
Description: | 109 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Series Title: | Notable Black Americans of achievement. |
Other Titles: | Benjamin Banneker, scientist and mathematician |
Responsibility: | Kevin Conley. |
Abstract:
A biography of the eighteenth-century black tobacco farmer who taught himself mathematics, astronomy, and clockmaking; became famous for his almanacs; and assisted in the original survey of Washington, D.C.
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