 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1819 - 574 pages
...THIRD. Of the Sphere. DEFTNITIONS. 437. A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle I LIE (Jig. 220) about... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1822 - 394 pages
...MEASUREMENT OF ITS ANGLES. Definitions. \ • I. The circumference of a circle is a curve line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this curve line. Note. In common language, the circle is sometimes... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre, John Farrar - Geometry - 1825 - 280 pages
...THIRD. • Of the Sphere. DEFINITIONS. 437. A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE (fig. 220) about... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1825 - 276 pages
...P:p::A3:a3. Of the Sphere. • DEFINITIONS. 437. A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE (fig. 220) about... | |
 | Timothy Walker - Geometry - 1829 - 138 pages
...described by the point B the circumference of a circle, which we define to be — a curved line fill the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre — . The whole space enclosed is called a circle, the moving line AB a radius, and the fixed point... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1836 - 394 pages
...THE MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES. Definitions. 1. The circumference of a circle is a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this curved line.* 2. Every straight line, CA, CE, CD, drawn... | |
 | Benjamin Peirce - Geometry - 1837 - 216 pages
...CHAPTER XVIII. THE SPHERE. 415. Definition. A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. 41G. Corollary. The sphere may be conceived to be generated l,y the revolution of a semicircle, DAE... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1909 - 540 pages
...conveniently after curvilinear figures.) STUDY OF CURVILINEAR FIGURES. CIRCLE. A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center. The center of a circle is a point within the circle, equally distant from all points in... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1838 - 292 pages
...acres. 5. What is the content of a field 27 chains long and 9 rods broad 1 Ans. 6 A. 0R. 12P. § 198. A circle is a portion of a plane bounded by a curved line, every part of which is equally distant from a certain point within, called the centre. The curved line... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1841 - 288 pages
...and the Measure of Angles. DEFINITIONS. 87. THE circumference of a circle is a curved line all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this curved line.* Fig 4t,. 88. Every straight line CA, CE, CD... | |
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PERIPHERY of a circle is its entire bounding line ; or it is a curved line, all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. 
