Cocker's Decimal arithmetick : wherein is shewed the nature and use of decimal fractions ... Together with tables of interest ... Whereunto is added his Artificial arithmetick, shewing the genesis or fabrick of the logarithmes, and their use in the extraction of roots ... Also his Algebraical arithmetick,containing the doctrine of composing and resolving an equation; with all other rules ... according to the method used by Mr. John Kersey in his incomparable treatise of Algebra. Composed by Edward Cocker. Perused, corrected, and published by John Hawkins.

Accession number

PML 6143

Creator

Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675.

Published

London : Printed by J. Richardson, for Tho. Passinger, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, and Tho. Lacy, at the Golden-Lyon in Southwark, 1685.

Notes

Of this work there were sixty eds., the 1st in 1658, the 52nd in 1748.
The "Artificial arithmetick" and "Algebraical arithmetick" have special title-pages dated 1684.
Errors in paging: no. 135-144 and 180-181 repeated; 2 leaves containing the contents to the whole work are inserted before p. 205.
This ed. prob. 5th or 6th.

Description

6 p. l., 436 (i.e. 452) p. ; 18 cm

Binding

Blue morocco.

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