Benjamin Banneker was an African-American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer and almanac author. A landowner, he also worked as a surveyor and farmer.
Library of Congress Banneker depicted in a 1943 mural by Maxine Merlino in the Recorder of Deeds Building in Washington, D.C. (2010)
View of the Patapsco Valley from Ellicott City (June 2012)
1799 portrait of Andrew Ellicott
Northeast No. 4 boundary marker stone of the original District of Columbia in Washington, D.C., and Prince George's County, Maryland (2005)
An almanac is a regularly published listing of a set of current information about one or multiple subjects. It includes information like weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, tide tables, and other tabular data often arranged according to the calendar. Celestial figures and various statistics are found in almanacs, such as the rising and setting times of the Sun and Moon, dates of eclipses, hours of high and low tides, and religious festivals. The set of events noted in an almanac may be tailored for a specific group of readers, such as farmers, sailors, or astronomers.
Old Moore's Almanack is an astrological almanac which has been published in Britain since 1697.
The 1st cent. Menologium Rusticum Colotianum, discovered in Rome and now held by the Archeological Museum in Naples
A page from the Almanac for the Hindu year 1871–72
MS. 8932. Medieval folding almanac (15th century)
