 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1819 - 574 pages
...SECTION 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.... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1822 - 394 pages
...THE 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... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre, John Farrar - Geometry - 1825 - 294 pages
...SECTION 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.... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre, John Farrar - Geometry - 1825 - 280 pages
...the Circle and the Measure of Angles. DEFINITIONS. 90. 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. 46. 91. Every straight line... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1836 - 394 pages
...CIRCLE, AND 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,... | |
 | Benjamin Peirce - Geometry - 1837 - 216 pages
...CIRCLE AND THE MEASURE OF ANGLES. • 84. Definitions. 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. . 85. Definitions. The radius of... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1841 - 288 pages
...the Circle 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... | |
 | J. M. Scribner - Measurement - 1844 - 130 pages
...of the two ends, measured upon the surface. 10. 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. A sphere may be described by the revolution of a semi-circle about a diameter. 11. A radius... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - 1845 - 894 pages
...GEOMETRY. SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. DEFINITIONS. 1. THE sphere is a solid terminated by a curve 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... | |
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CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center; as the figure ADB E. 
