Professional Documents
Culture Documents
and Paul-André
Meyer
(Profile and Contributions in
mathematics)
12/18/18
Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker
Pierre L’Enfant,
the architect of
the new capital
city then used
the survey to
ensure that
what he laid out
would be
accurate.
Benjamin Banneker
He called his
almanac the
Pennsylvania,
Delaware,
Maryland, and
Virginia
Almanac and
Ephemeris.
Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker