The Net Advance of Physics:
History and Philosophy: Benjamin Banneker

• MacTutor Page [St. Andrews University]
• Memoir of Benjamin Banneker by John H. B. Latrobe [Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1845]
• A Sketch of the Life of Benjamin Banneker from Notes Taken in 1836 by a lady who has chosen to withhold her name [Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1854]
• The Negro, Benjamin Banneker ; Astronomer and Mathematician, Plea for Universal Peace by P. Lee Phillips [Records of the Columbia Historical Society, 114 (1917)] About Banneker's support for a U.S. Department of Peace. Benjamin Rush's essay proposing this was first published by Banneker, and has sometimes been ascribed to him.
• The Life of Benjamin Banneker: The First African-American Man of Science by Silvio A. Bedini [New York: Scribner, 1971]
• Benjamin Banneker: Surveyor, Astronomer, Publisher, Patriot by Charles A. Cerami [New York: John Wiley, 2002]

• Letter to the Marquis de Condorcet, 1791 August 30 by Thomas Jefferson [Library of Congress] Bragging about America's having a "Negro ... who is a very respectable mathematician," (and providing no hint of the tension in Jefferson's dealings with Banneker). Holograph copy of original.

• WORKS: Hard to find online in 2013; strangely, Maryland almanacs before and after Banneker's time seem to have been scanned, but not those which he edited (1792-97). Banneker's correspondence with Jefferson and others can be found in the biographies above.
  • The Mathematical Puzzles of Benjamin Banneker by John F. Mahoney [College Board] Contains the text of the puzzles, with proposed solutions.

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