 | William Taylor (teacher of the mathematics.) - Arithmetic - 1800 - 556 pages
...which is called 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... | |
 | Andrew Mackay - Latitude - 1809 - 412 pages
...the 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,... | |
 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1811 - 580 pages
...the 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... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - Geography - 1814 - 378 pages
...of the 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...Into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. The circles, supposed by geographers to be described on the sphere, are denominated great and small... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - Geography - 1814 - 382 pages
...of the celeftial fphere, are fuppofed to be extended to the earth, and marked on its farface. Each circle is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees...degree is divided into 60 minutes, and each minute into (tofeconds. The circles fuppofed by geographers to be defcribed on the fphere, are denominated great... | |
 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1814 - 558 pages
...the 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... | |
 | William Philipps - 1817 - 292 pages
...divided into 360 degrees, each of the twelve parts of the Zodiac will contain 30 degrees of the circle ; each degree is divided into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds, and so on. The Zodiac takes in a band or belt of stars 1 6 degrees broad,... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - Geography - 1818 - 384 pages
...called the Celestial Sphere. 21 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 minutet, and each minute into GO seconds. % If The circles, supposed by Geographers to be described... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Costume - 1826 - 294 pages
...equal parts, called degrees. A degret on the earth is 60 geographical, or nearly 69 1-10 common miles; each degree is divided into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. They are marked thus : 24° 12 40" ; that is, 24 degrees, 12 minutes, and 40 seconds. What is the equator ? It is a great... | |
 | B[enjamin] Franklin Callender - Measurement - 1836 - 226 pages
...GEOMETRY. FART FIFTH. CHAPTER I. MENSURATION OF ANGLES AND TRIANGLES. SECTION I. Definitions and ProblemS. Every circle is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree is divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; each minute is divided into 60 equal parts, called seconds; seconds are... | |
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The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. Each degree is divided into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. 
