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COCKER, EDWARD (1631-1675)

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 625 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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COCKER, EDWARD (1631-1675) , the reputed author of the famous Arithmetick, the popularity of which has added a phrase (" according to Cocker ") to the
list
  of English proverbialisms, was an English engraver, who also taught writing and arithmetic. He is credited with the authorship and execution of some fourteen sets of copy slips, one of which, Daniel's Copy-Book, ingraven by
Edward
  Cocker, Philomath (1664), is preserved in the British Museum. Pepys, in his Diary, makes very favourable mention of Cocker, who appears to have displayed
great
  skill in his art. Cocker's Arithmetick, the fifty-second edition of which appeared in 1748, and which has passed through about 112 editions in all, was not published during the lifetime of its reputed author, the first impression bearing date of 1678.
Augustus
  de
Morgan
  in his Arithmetical Books (1847) adduces proofs, which may be held to be conclusive, that the
work
  was a forgery of the editor and publisher, John Hawkins; and there appears to be no doubt that the Decimal Arithmetic (1684), and the English 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 works, and
dates
  " a very
great
  deterioration in elementary works on arithmetic " from the
appearance
  of the book, which owed its celebrity far more to persistent puffing than to its merits. He 'pertinently adds," This same
Edward
  Cocker must have had great reputation, since a bad book under his name pushed out the good ones."


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