數學家和天文學家，班哲明‧班尼卡出生，1731年11月9日

你看到星星時會做什麼呢？班哲明班尼卡會看出天文星象運行，加以估算及預測。一位數學家和天文學家，班哲明‧班尼卡，1731年11月9日在馬里蘭州艾莉卡山丘誕生。

靠著大量的自修，班尼卡是第一位非裔美國人在科學上獲得殊榮。他的傑出成就包括了成功預測日蝕、出版自製年曆、丈量華盛頓等。班尼卡博士一生大部份的時間，都花在他位於巴爾的摩外的一處100英畝大小的農場內。在這裡，他藉觀察星象自我教育，並且由借來的參考書研習高深數學。


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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