 | Thomas Malton - 1774 - 484 pages
...of a SPHERE, is any Right Line puffing through its Center, and terminated by its Surface. As A B. NB A Sphere may be conceived to be generated, by the revolution of a Semicircle; as ADB, on its Diameter AB, which remains fixed whilft th« Semicircumference revolves ; and, in its... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1819 - 574 pages
...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 its diameter D'E ; Fig. for the surface thus described by the curve DAE will... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1822 - 394 pages
...surface, a1' the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. D The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about its diameter DE ; for the surface described in this movement, by the curve DAE, will have... | |
 | Edward Riddle - Nautical astronomy - 1824 - 572 pages
...surface, every point of which is at the same distance from a point within, called the centre. Cor. 1. A sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle, about its diameter. Cor. 2. The section of a sphere, by a plane passing through the centre, is a circle... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre, John Farrar - Geometry - 1825 - 280 pages
...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 its diameter DE; Fig. 220. for the surface thus described by the curve DAE will... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1825 - 276 pages
...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 its diameter DE ; Fig. 220. for the surface thus described by the curve DAE will... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 650 pages
...ratified by his son, Meredyd ap Owen, February 24, 1416. GLOBE, in geometry ; a round, solid body, which may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter. (See Sphere.) Globe, or Artificial Globe, in geography and astronomy, is more particularly... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 646 pages
...ratified by his son, Meredyd ap Owen, February 24, 141ß. GLOBE, in geometry ; a round, solid body, which may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter. (See Splicre.) Globe, or Artificial Globe, in geography and astronomy, is more... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1836 - 394 pages
...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 about its diameter DE : for the surface - described in this movement, by the curve DAE, will have... | |
 | Benjamin Peirce - Geometry - 1841 - 186 pages
...the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. 416. Corollary. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle, DAE (fig. 177) about its diameter DE. 417. Definitions. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn... | |
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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. 
