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1787 ARITHMETIC COCKER'S in ENGLISH antique 18th CENTURY

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Title: 1787 ARITHMETIC COCKER'S in ENGLISH antique 18th CENTURY

Description: Cocker's Arithmetic:
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
Glasgow; 1787
Size 4 by 6.5
Original calf
Front cover is detached.
Lacks endpapers.
186 pp
Foxing , toning
Text in English
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Cocker's Arithmetick, also known by its full title 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, is a grammar school mathematics textbook written by Edward Cocker (1631–1676) and published posthumously by John Hawkins in 1678.
Arithmetick along with companion volume, Decimal Arithmetick published in 1684, were used to teach mathematics in schools in the United Kingdom for more than 150 years.

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1787 ARITHMETIC COCKER'S in ENGLISH antique 18th CENTURY

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