Article ID: CBB000071797

Edward Cocker (1632?-1676) and his Arithmetick: De Morgan demolished (1997)

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Description Augustus De Morgan contended that Cocker's popular textbook was really the product of its editor, John Hawkins. Research now shows that it is really Cocker's work.


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Authors & Contributors
Stilinović, Vladimir
Rice, Adrian
Brueckler, Franka Miriam
Paola Magrone
Wu, Xiu-wen
Williams, T. D.
Journals
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Historia Mathematica
Russian History
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Nei Menggu Shifan Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)
Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, London
Publishers
Springer Nature
Middlesex University (UK)
Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften
Concepts
Arithmetic
Textbooks
Mathematics
Algebra
Mathematics education
Geometry
People
De Morgan, Augustus
Ocreatus, H.
Abraham Ben Ezra
Wallis, John
Varen, Bernhard
Riese, Adam
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
16th century
Medieval
Early modern
Places
British Isles
United Kingdom
Moscow (Russia)
England
Spain
Russia
Institutions
Habsburg, House of
University of London
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