 | David Steel - 1805 - 392 pages
...circle, whence it gradually 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... | |
 | Charles Vyse - Arithmetic - 1806 - 342 pages
...Parallel Rectangles, and the four Sides are Quadrangles. Fig. 22. A Sphere is a Solid bounded by a convex Surface, every Point of which is equally distant from a Point C, within, called the Centre. The .\xis, or Diameter of a Sphere, is the right Lin? AB. Fig. 23. A... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...four species. GLOBE, a round or spherical body, more usually called a sphere, bounded by one uniform convex surface, every point of .which is equally distant from a point within called its centre. Euclid defines the globe or sphere, to be a solid figure described by the revolution... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 752 pages
...four species. GLOBE, a round or spherical body, more usually called a sphere, bounded by one uniform convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called its centre. Euclid defines Ihr globe or sphere, to bè a solid figure described by the revolution... | |
 | Oliver Welch - Arithmetic - 1812 - 236 pages
...'c.'' to find the 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,... | |
 | Charles Vyse - Arithmetic - 1815 - 340 pages
...parallel rectangles, and the four sides are quadrangles. Fig. 22. A sphere is a solid bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point C,. within, called the centre. / The axis, or diameter of a sphere, is the right Ifne AB. Fig. 23.... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 394 pages
...four species. GLOBE, a round or spherical body, more usually called a sphere, bounded by one uniform convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called its centre. Euclid defines the globe or sphere, to be a solid figure described by the revolution... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 308 pages
...of a pyramid, is, multiply the base by the perpendicular height, and take one third of the product. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex...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... | |
 | James Mitchell - Mathematics - 1823 - 666 pages
...SPECULUM, the same as 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... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1826 - 176 pages
...in a point at the top called a vertex. 7. A cone is a round pyramid, having a circle for its base. 8. A sphere is a solid bounded by one continued convex surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. Mensuration of Solids teaches... | |
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A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. 
