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

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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$25, sis Denominator of a. Fraction is the fnferiot i hum eF placed below’ the line‘and ¢ expreffeth the nur 1 Ber o if parts into which the Jy itor Integer is divided 3 W astet , he the: Frattion’s ven, fo fhall 2 be the hiuttite. tr 1 xprefs 0 Or Ai mbar r the multitude of parts contained i this Fr acti of BE Zisa Fraction comp sited t Juarters.>- and the. Figuré 2 in asirnbringk Mews us. that fe elat Fra¢tion there are 2 of thofe | ie ul th rs h , rator,: ind. sat parts OF pRarke $ 5. alfo’in the fame Frattion ¢ , e-denuninatoy and doth exprefs the 5 i¢_E Tayton, VIZ ee Rat the whole, or inte éFs is here divided into.4 equal parts, -,” | “ A’ broke munber is cith¢ ét Proper or linpropers itor is lefte F than the derio- 2EF BS, hal w . 16a, perfect pro nal elk tion; ‘but an im- ; prope; rracviog J tus 1fS nume) ato gre ate ror gt leaft e ti : gual tothe genoningtors thys 21s at n imptefer PYge 2 > ‘ ‘4 de ° ction, the Reafon is. given in the definiti ion. ’ ; Le, $3 : “ , 24.A. proper bro Ken number is either Simple or Come “ } I> * ft UND Viz. SUMP ie | When it bath one Denimina 70M, atid Compound. when it'cot nfifteth of divert f dndmigations acd, Were given Is. we fay a ey are“ either a gle. or fim ble i@ions becaufe they, confitt bat af one namie ie arid one daertn tie but 172 of 2.01 2°. Of.a p¢ und fterling were giver, we fy | und broken. number, Or fraction, becauie le expretiion and .eprefentation confifteth of more fenominaiypes than one; and fucl eS ee ee by fome are called iq 4 eghia ads qi! ‘ fi, Frag! fang,and hey haye.al lways.thi 5 P irtivle Mt Aas) faa edit them. be-+225 When a fingle brake number or riteeuhs hath } fonhis.densminat number confifting of a Unit in the toc. t fl <y 1) fr t plac e. towards the eft hand, aud nothing but Cy- i. phers from the Unit towards the ri: she hand, iti M the pore AREY and rightly called a décimal Fract under;this head: area} YW our, d deoreafing numbers placed, and in our 53th. defimtion . called ‘Nez ative, at that. order there, spreicribed, we order thent to be Decimals by fighting a poini or pric *k before them, or ork reo a a ee the tid 7] 1eYAtor Te} iecting the deno minat oY : Ti Li 1¢rero re dC- BR cen TY EY: Sen ee A es aaa edge Sg es ee “ek$

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