Cocker's 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 country ... / By Edward Cocker, late practicioner [!] in the arts of writing, artihmetick, and engraving. Being that so long since promised to the world. Perused and published by John Hawkins, writing-master near St. George's church in Southwark, by the author's correct copy, and recommended to the world by many eminent mathematicians and writing-masters in and near London.

  • Edward Cocker
Date:
1697
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Credit: Cocker's 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 country ... / By Edward Cocker, late practicioner [!] in the arts of writing, artihmetick, and engraving. Being that so long since promised to the world. Perused and published by John Hawkins, writing-master near St. George's church in Southwark, by the author's correct copy, and recommended to the world by many eminent mathematicians and writing-masters in and near London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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