数学家和天文学家，班哲明．班尼卡出生，1731年11月9日

你看到星星时会做什么呢？班哲明班尼卡会看出天文星象运行，加以估算及预测。一位数学家和天文学家，班哲明．班尼卡，1731年11月9日在马里兰州艾莉卡山丘诞生。

靠着大量的自修，班尼卡是第一位非裔美国人在科学上获得殊荣。他的杰出成就包括了成功预测日蚀、出版自制年历、丈量华盛顿等。班尼卡博士一生大部份的时间，都花在他位于巴尔的摩外的一处100英亩大小的农场内。在这里，他藉观察星象自我教育，并且由借来的参考书研习高深数学。


What do you see when you look at the stars? Benjamin Banneker saw astronomical patterns from which he could make calculations and predictions. A mathematician and astronomer, Benjamin Banneker was born on November 9, 1731, in Ellicott's Mills, Maryland.

Largely self-taught, Banneker was one of the first African Americans to gain distinction in science. His significant accomplishments include the successful prediction of a solar eclipse, publishing his own almanac, and the surveying of Washington, D.C. Banneker spent most of his life on his family's 100-acre farm outside Baltimore. There, he taught himself astronomy by watching the stars and learned advanced mathematics from borrowed textbooks.

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