click image for close-up The cover of Benjamin Banneker's 1795 Almanac features ... tide tables, lunar and solar eclipses, and the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon; they were ...
BALTIMORE -- Baltimore County native Benjamin ... his world." Banneker died in 1806 at the age of 74. Brains behind the boundaries of Washington, D.C. From accurately charting eclipses over ...