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• EDWARD

EDWARD See also:

• EDWARD COCKER (1631-1675)

COCKER (1631-1675)  , the reputed author of the famous Arithmetick, the popularity of which has added a phrase (" according to See also:

• COCKER, EDWARD (1631-1675)

Cocker ") to the See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of See also:

• ENGLISH

English proverbialisms, was an English engraver, who also taught See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing and See also:

• ARITHMETIC (Gr. apeOµ7run7, sc. TEXVn, the art of counting, from (ipLBµos, number)

arithmetic . He is credited with the authorship and See also:

• EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution of some fourteen sets of copy slips, one of which, See also:

• DANIEL
• DANIEL (DANIL)
• DANIEL, BOOK
• DANIEL, GABRIEL (1649-1728)

Daniel's Copy-See also:

• BOOK

Book, ingraven by See also:

• EDWARD

Edward Cocker, Philomath (1664), is preserved in the See also:

• BRITISH

British Museum . See also:

• PEPYS, SAMUEL (1633-1703)

Pepys, in his See also:

• DIARY

Diary, makes very favourable mention of Cocker, who appears to have displayed See also:

• GREAT

great skill in his See also:

• ART

art . Cocker's Arithmetick, the fifty-second edition of which appeared in 1748, and which has passed through about 112 See also:

• EDITIONS

editions in all, was not published during the lifetime of its reputed author, the first impression bearing date of 1678 . See also:

• AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

Augustus de See also:

• MORGAN
• MORGAN, DANIEL (1736-1802)
• MORGAN, EDWIN DENNISON (1811-1883)
• MORGAN, JOHN HUNT (1825-1864)
• MORGAN, JOHN PIERPONT (1837–1913)
• MORGAN, LEWIS HENRY (1818-1881)
• MORGAN, SYDNEY, LADY (c. 1783-1859)
• MORGAN, THOMAS (d. 1743)

Morgan in his Arithmetical Books (1847) adduces proofs, which may be held to be conclusive, that the See also:

• WORK

work was a See also:

• FORGERY (derived through the French from Latin fabricare, to construct)

forgery of the editor and publisher, See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• HAWKINS, CAESAR HENRY (1798-1884)
• HAWKINS, or HAWKYNS, SIR JOHN (1532-1595)
• HAWKINS, or HAWKYNS, SIR RICHARD (c. 1562-1622)
• HAWKINS, SIR JOHN (1719-1789)

Hawkins; and there appears to be no doubt that the Decimal Arithmetic (1684), and the English See also:

• DICTIONARY

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

works, and See also:

• DATES

dates " a very great deterioration in elementary works on arithmetic " from the See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance of the book, which owed its celebrity far more to persistent puffing than to its merits .