{"id":11178,"date":"2017-02-19T12:13:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T04:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=11178"},"modified":"2017-03-29T12:15:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T04:15:01","slug":"math-movie-exceptional-life-benjamin-banneker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/math-movie-exceptional-life-benjamin-banneker-11178","title":{"rendered":"Math movie: The exceptional life of Benjamin Banneker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em class=\"textem\">The exceptional life of Benjamin Banneker<\/em> tells the story of the son of a former slave father and a free African American mother. Banneker was largely self-educated in astronomy and mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>He assisted in surveying the site of Washington DC, and exchanged letters with president Thomas Jefferson asking him to ensure racial equality.<\/p>\n<p>Banneker built a wooden clock, and taught himself astronomy, accurately predicting solar and lunar eclipses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imgCenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2017\/03\/banneker.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin Banneker almanac cover\" width=\"310\" height=\"433\" \/><br \/>\nImage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/benjamin-banneker-9198038\">source<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>He wrote a series of popular almanacs containing some of his calculations and tidal information.<\/p>\n<p>On with the short video, by TED-Ed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n  <iframe width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DKnwyVR4P88?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>To conclude, here's a great quote by Banneker:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/math-movie-exceptional-life-benjamin-banneker-11178\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2017\/03\/banneker_th.jpg\" alt=\"The exceptional life of Benjamin Banneker\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSelf-taught mathematician and astronomer Benjamin Banneker excelled despite little formal education and prejudice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[125,130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11182,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178\/revisions\/11182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}