| David Steel - 1805 - 392 pages
...tapers to the vertex. A Sphere, or globe, is a solid bounded by one uniform convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the rotation of a semi-circle about its diameter. The.i4.ra... | |
| Samuel Webber - Mathematics - 1808 - 520 pages
...square, or hexagonal, 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre* The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, which... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 458 pages
...lines or «ides." " A circle is a plane figure, bounded liy a curre line called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre." AD axiom is a manifest truth not requiring a detnonstratipn : The following areexamplcs of axioms,... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 516 pages
...three lines or sides." " A circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curve line called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre." An axiom is a manifest truth not requiring a demonstration : The following are examples of axioms,... | |
| Oliver Welch - Arithmetic - 1812 - 236 pages
...solidity of a globe, or spher-e. NB A globe or sphere is a round body boundedby a surface every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre ; a line passing from one side to the other through the centre is called the diameter, or axis. RULE.... | |
| Jedidiah Morse - Geography - 1814 - 696 pages
...between two lines, which meet each other. Circle. A circle is a regular figure, bounded by a curve line, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the centre. The circumference of a circle is the curve line, which bounds it. The radius... | |
| Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 706 pages
...between two lines, which meet each other. Circle. A circle is a regular figure, bounded by a curve line, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the centre. The circumference of a circle is the curve line, which bounds it. The radius... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 308 pages
...one third of the product. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. Rule for finding the surface of a sphere or any segment or zone thereof. Multiply the circumference... | |
| James Mitchell - Mathematics - 1823 - 666 pages
...Mirror. SPHERK. or ULOBE, in Geometry, is a solid contained under one uniform surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre of the sphere, and may be conceived to be generated by the revolution ot a semi-circle Rbout its diameter,... | |
| Anthony Nesbit - Surveying - 1824 - 476 pages
...called the axis or diameter of the sphere ; or it is a solid bounded by one continued convex surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 14. The segment of a sphere is any part of it cut off by a plane. If the plane pass through the centre,... | |
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