Benjamin Banneker, Author-captured image of a 15 February 1980 first day of issue U.S. Postal Service stamp honoring surveyor-astronomer Benjamin Banneker (born 1731, died 1806). In slaveholding New England near Baltimore, Benjamin Banneker was a born free African-American land-owning gentleman-bachelor farmer (tobacco and other crops), an amateur mathematician, and an amateur clockmaker who took up observational astronomy when he was 57 years old. In 1791, the 60 year old Banneker assisted U.S. Geographer General Major Andrew Ellicott in surveying territory that would become the District of Columbia; and he calculated astronomical ephemerides for almanacs for the years 1792 through 1797.

 

INTRODUCTION TO ASTRO-THEOLOGY

 

June issue of Journal of Cosmology, Volume 19

Editors: Rudy E. Schild and Carl H. Gibson

Guest Editors Volumes 19 and 20: Theodore Walker, Jr (picture and bio). and Joseph A. Bracken (picture, bio)

 

 

CONTENTS

 

I. ASTRO-THEOLOGY

 

1. COMMENTARY: Introduction to Astro-Theology - Rudolph E. Schild. pp 8547-8551.

 

2. COMMENTARY: Astro-theology in the Journal of Cosmology - Theodore Walker, Jr., pp 8552-8555.

 

3. The Liberating Role of Astronomy in an Old Farmer’s Almanac: David Rittenhouse’s “Useful Knowledge” and a Benjamin Banneker Almanac for 1792 - Theodore Walker, Jr., pp 8556-8582.

 

4. ‘The Relation of Biology to Astronomy’ and Theology: Panspermia and Panentheism; Revolutionary Convergences Advanced by Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe - Theodore Walker, Jr. , pp 8583-8604.

 

5. Whiteheadian Actual Entitities and String Theory - Joseph A. Bracken, pp 8605-8621.

 

 

 

II. COSMOLOGY

 

6. Stability of static massive bodies in the presence of creation field - Raj Bali. pp 8622-8634.