Kepler's Equation of Elliptical Motion in Terms of Cosine

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Virtually all material discussing Kepler's Equation of Elliptical Motion resolves its solution to solving the following equation numerically:

$$ E - \textit{e}\;\sin(E) = M $$

where E is the Eccentric Anomaly,
e is the eccentricity,
and M is the Mean Anomaly.

In all the material I have read and sought out, never has a solution been stated in terms of cosine.

Other than the naive approach of simply writing the existing equation as $$ E - \textit{e}\;\sqrt{1 -\cos^{2}(E)} = M $$

is there an equation corresponding to the first one--but in terms of cosine?