Samuel Jeake , dubbed the elder to distinguish him from his son, was a merchant, Nonconformist

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 and astrologer

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 from Rye, East Sussex

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, England

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. He is primarily known for his extensive diaries

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, which are today considered a valuable historical resource. Jeake also wrote on mathematics, and made the first recorded use of the terms "addend", "cosecant", and "proper fraction".

His principal mathematical work was Logisticelogia, or Arithmetick Surveighed and Reviewed published in four books in 1696. This was edited by his son Samuel Jeake, the younger (1652–1699).

When Conrad Aiken

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 was London

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 correspondent for The New Yorker

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, he used the pen name "Samuel Jeake Junior".