 | Joseph Harris - Astronomical models - 1732 - 236 pages
...Pole is placed, and the opppfite one is the Southern Hemifphere. The Aftronomers divide all Circles into 360 equal Parts called 'Degrees, each Degree...60 equal Parts called Minutes, each Minute into 60 Seconds, &c. But befides this Divifion into Degrees, the Equir noftial is commonly divided into 24... | |
 | John Muller - 1756 - 372 pages
...the points C, A, v»ill rfiak'e the angle required. NB Mathematicians fuppofe the circurnfefence of a circle to be divided into 360 equal parts called degrees, each degree divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, as like wife each minute into 60 equal parts called feconds.... | |
 | John Muller - Fortification - 1799 - 336 pages
...the points C, A, will make the angle required. N. B, Mathematicians fuppofe the circumference of a .circle to be divided into 360 equal parts called degrees, each degree divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, as likewife each minute into <5o equal parts called feconds,... | |
 | William Taylor (teacher of the mathematics.) - Arithmetic - 1800 - 556 pages
...a' femi-eircle • half the diameter is called the Radius. 8. The circumference of every circle is divided into 360 equal parts called Degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called Minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called Seconds, &c. Any part of the the circumference is called... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Classical dictionaries - 1802 - 914 pages
...radii of the fame circle are always equal to one another. The circumference of every circle is fuppofed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 mi* ñutes \ each minute into 60 feccnds ; and thefe into thirds, fourths, &c. greater or ¡efs according... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Trigonometry - 1806 - 464 pages
...contained between its two legs, and having the angular point for its centre. Every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees...called minutes ; each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; &c. So that a semicircle, or half the circumference, contains 1 80 degrees ; and a... | |
 | Astronomy - 1808 - 290 pages
...Ecliptic. This circle we suppose to be divided into 12 equal parts, called Signs ; each sign . into 30 equal parts, called Degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts called Minutes ; and every minute into 60 equal parts, called Seconds; so that a second is the 60th part of a minute... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1809 - 574 pages
...ecliptic. tic. This circle we suppose to be divided into 12 equal parts, called signs ; each sign into 30 equal parts, called degrees; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 into 60 equal parts, called seconds : so that a second Plate I. is the 60th... | |
 | Thomas Keith - Navigation - 1810 - 478 pages
...aBC and the arc DE is the measure of the angle ABC. (H) The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts called degrees,...parts called minutes, each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. The angles are measured by the number of "egrees cut from the circle by the lines which... | |
 | Thomas Keith - Astronomy - 1811 - 388 pages
...the year 1804, was 13° 14' 43" and its declination 80° "15' 44" north. $ Every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees...parts called minutes ; each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds, &c. ; a degree is, therefore, only a relative idea, and not an absolute quantity, except... | |
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The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. 
