Authority Cited: Cock[er]; Cocker
Author name and dates: Edward Cocker (1631-1675)
BKG Bio-tweet: Teacher, calligrapher, engraver; popular posthumous work on arithmetic (100 editions): “according to Cocker”
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) BKG Note; about 11 Cocker cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 8 cites in Dict. vol. 2. No additional Cocker cites were identified in the 1773 Dict. The edition used by SJ is unknown. There were 20 editions published by 1700.]
Author name and dates: Edward Cocker (1631-1675)
BKG Bio-tweet: Teacher, calligrapher, engraver; popular posthumous work on arithmetic (100 editions): “according to Cocker”
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) BKG Note; about 11 Cocker cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 8 cites in Dict. vol. 2. No additional Cocker cites were identified in the 1773 Dict. The edition used by SJ is unknown. There were 20 editions published by 1700.]
- Cockers arithmetick being a plain and familiar method suitable to the meanest capacity for the full understanding of that incomparable art as it is now taught by the ablest school-masters in city and countrey / composed by Edward Cocker, late Practictioner in the arts of Writing, Arithmetick and Engraving. Being that so long since promised to the world. perused and published by John Hawkins, Writing Master near St. Georges Church in Southwark by the Author's correct copy, and commended to the world by many eminent Mathematicians and Writing Masters in and near London. Licensed Sept. 3, 1677, Roger L'Estrange. 1678, London: Printed, for T. Passinger at the Three Bibles on London Bridge and W. Lacy at the Golden Lyon in Southwark and sold by C. Passinger at the 7 Stars at the New-Buildings upon London Bridge.; addable (p.33); addition; carat/caract; degree; denominative; denominator; dividend; division; farthing; fellowship (Ch. XV, p. 215 in the 1678 (1st) edition; see also Malcolm); fractional; multiplicand; multiplication, multiplier; notation; proportional; quotient; reduction; substraction;
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