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Edward Cocker

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244: 191: 22: 112: 51:, the popularity of which has added a phrase ("according to Cocker") to the list of English proverbialisms. He is credited with the authorship and execution of some fourteen sets of copy slips, one of which, 76:, the fifty-second edition of which appeared in 1748, and which passed through over 100 editions in all, was not published during the lifetime of its reputed author, the first impression being dated 1678. 228: 281: 132: 127: 170: 315: 243: 325: 221: 274: 84:(1847) argues that the work was a forgery of the editor and publisher, John Hawkins. Ruth Wallis, in 1997, wrote an article in 310: 320: 214: 267: 190: 146:
R Wallis, Edward Cocker (1632?–1676) and his arithmetick: De Morgan demolished, Ann. of Sci. 54 (1997), 507–522.
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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This article about an engraver, etcher or printmaker from the United Kingdom is a
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This article about an English writer, poet or playwright is a
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Daniel's Copy-Book, ingraven by Edward Cocker, Philomath
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Richard Gaywood
engraver
arithmetic
British Museum
Samuel Pepys
Cocker's Arithmetick
Augustus De Morgan
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Chisholm, Hugh
Cocker, Edward
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Robertson, Edmund F.
"Edward Cocker"
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
University of St Andrews
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