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Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker was an American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer and almanac author. A landowner, he also worked as a surveyor and farmer.
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science · American scientist, surveyor and farmer (1731–1806) · mathematician · astronomer · watchmaker · editor · farmer · inventor · naturalist · also Benjamin Banneker, Benjamin Bannaker, Banneker
Born 9 November 1731 · Died 9 October 1806 · Q557600
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2023· 2 entries
Science Friday: Appreciating The Brilliance Of Benjamin Banneker
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Mental Floss: Benjamin Banneker, the Black Mathematician Who May Have Saved Washington, D.C.
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1997· 1 entry
It was announced that the artifacts would initially be exhibited in the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D
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1996· 1 entry
A descendant of George Ellicott decided to sell at auction some of those items, including a drop-leaf table, candlesticks, candle molds, maps, letters and diaries
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1987· 1 entry
A member of the Ellicott family, which had retained Banneker's only remaining journal, donated that document and other Banneker manuscripts to the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore
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1983· 1 entry
Rita Dove, a future Poet Laureate of the United States, wrote a biographical poem about Banneker while on the faculty of Arizona State University
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1977· 1 entry
Near his unmarked grave stands in the yard of the Mount Gilboa African Methodist Episcopal Church in Oella, Maryland (see Mount Gilboa Chapel)
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1813· 1 entry
William Goodard, who had published the Baltimore edition of Banneker's 1792 almanac (Banneker's first published almanac), donated the manuscript for the almanac to the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachus
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1809· 1 entry
Three years after Banneker's death, Jefferson expressed a different opinion of Banneker in a letter to Joel Barlow that criticized a "diatribe" that a French abolitionist, Henri Grégoire, had written in 1808, stating: "
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1806· 3 entries
Died 1806-10-09.
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“Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.”
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A fire burned Banneker's log cabin to the ground, destroying many of his belongings and papers
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1731· 1 entry
Born 1731-11-09.
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