Benjamin Banneker was an African American astronomer, mathematician, and surveyor who published his first almanac in 17921. The almanac was published every year for close to a decade and was famous for providing a host of useful information at the time, including things on tide tables, weather predictions, and data on astronomy.
The almanac included information on medicines and medical treatment and listed tides, astronomical information, and eclipses that Banneker had calculated2. He published the journal annually from 1791 to 18022. On August 19, 1791, Banneker sent a copy of his first almanac to then secretary of state Thomas Jefferson
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