| Tiberius Cavallo - Aeronautics - 1803 - 490 pages
...circle ; but for the conveniency of expreffing this part, the whole circle is divided, or is fuppofed to be divided, into 360 equal parts called degrees* each degree is fubdivided into 60 equal parts called minutes, each minute is divided into 60 eqiial parts ca.\\zAfeconds... | |
| John Bonnycastle - Trigonometry - 1806 - 464 pages
...a circle 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 ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; &c. So that... | |
| Andrew Mackay - Latitude - 1809 - 412 pages
...celestial Equator or EQUINOCTIAL. The Equator as well as all other great circles of the sphere, is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ;* each degree is divided into 6O equal parts, called minutes; and the sexagesimal division is continued. The MERIDIAN of any place,... | |
| Thomas Keith - Navigation - 1810 - 478 pages
...the angle 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, each degree into 60 equal parts called minutes, each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. The angles are... | |
| Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1811 - 580 pages
...celestial Equator or Equinoctial. The Equator, as well as all other great circles of the sphere, is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each...degree is divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes i and the sexagesimal division is continued. NOTE. The ancients having no instruments by Which they... | |
| Thomas Keith - Astronomy - 1811 - 388 pages
...beginning of 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 ; each degree into 60 equal parts called minutes ; each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds, &c. ; a degree... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 462 pages
...of a circle, contained between the two legs, having the angular point for its centre. Ev.ery circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parti, called minutes $ each minute into' 60 equal parts, called seconds. " An angle... | |
| Friedrich Christian Accum - Crystallography - 1813 - 488 pages
...the circumference of a circle is the standard of comparison. This circle, of whatever size it may be, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree is again subdivided into 60 equal parts, called minutes, and every minute is subdivided into 60 seconds... | |
| Jedidiah Morse - Geography - 1814 - 378 pages
...celestial sphere, are supposed to be extended to the earth, and marked on its surface. Each circle is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree is divided Into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. The circles, supposed by geographers to be described on the... | |
| Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1814 - 558 pages
...celestial Equator or Equinoctial. The Equator, as well as all other great circles of the sphere, is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each...degree is divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes ,• and the sexagesimal division is continued. NOTE. The ancients having no instruments by Which they... | |
| |