The cover of Benjamin Banneker's 1795 Almanac features a woodcut portrait of the ... lunar and solar eclipses, and the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon; they were also ...

Banneker, a free Black man who lived in a slave state, correctly predicted a solar eclipse in 1789, contradicting the leading astronomers of the time.

Benjamin Banneker cartoon by Charles Alston U.S. National Archives and Records Administration / public domain Almanacs were the eighteenth century’s internet. The regularly printed miscellanies ...

While taught to read by his maternal grandmother, Banneker was mainly self-taught in all other subjects including astronomy, accurately forecasting lunar and solar eclipse, and mathematics ...

The cover of Benjamin Banneker's 1795 Almanac features a woodcut portrait of the ... lunar and solar eclipses, and the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon; they were also ...