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After Failing Math Twice, a Young Benjamin Franklin Turned to This Popular 17th-Century Textbook

A 19th-century scholar claimed that “Cocker’s Arithmetick” had “probably made as much stir and noise in the English world as any [book]—next to the Bible”

By James Fox

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/after-failing-math-twice-a-young-benjamin-franklin-turned-to-this-popular-17th-century-textbook-180985664/

1716 edition of Cocker's Arithmetick is available at
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_cockers-arithmetick-be_cocker-edward_1716/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater

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