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COCKER, EDWARD (1631-1675)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 625 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COCKER, See also:EDWARD (1631-1675) , the reputed author of the famous Arithmetick, the popularity of which has added a phrase (" according to Cocker ") to the See also:list of See also:English proverbialisms, was an English engraver, who also taught See also:writing and See also:arithmetic. He is credited with the authorship and See also:execution of some fourteen sets of copy slips, one of which, See also:Daniel's Copy-See also:Book, ingraven by Edward Cocker, Philomath (1664), is preserved in the See also:British Museum. See also:Pepys, in his See also:Diary, makes very favourable mention of Cocker, who appears to have displayed See also:great skill in his See also:art. Cocker's Arithmetick, the fifty-second edition of which appeared in 1748, and which has passed through about 112 See also:editions in all, was not published during the lifetime of its reputed author, the first impression bearing date of 1678. See also:Augustus de See also:Morgan in his Arithmetical Books (1847) adduces proofs, which may be held to be conclusive, that the See also:work was a See also:forgery of the editor and publisher, See also:John See also:Hawkins; and there appears to be no doubt that the Decimal Arithmetic (1684), and the English See also:Dictionary (second edition, 1715), issued by Hawkins under Cocker's name, are forgeries also. De Morgan condemns the Arithmetick as a diffuse compilation from older and better See also:works, and See also:dates " a very great deterioration in elementary works on arithmetic " from the See also:appearance of the book, which owed its celebrity far more to persistent puffing than to its merits.

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