| John Muller - Mathematics - 1769 - 152 pages
...they fubtend will be in the fame ratio. C NB NB Mathematicians divide the circumference of a circle into 360 equal parts, called degrees, each degree into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 feconds. Thefe divifions being marked on a femi-circle of brafs, or on an ivory rectangle, called protraftor,... | |
| John Muller - Mathematics - 1773 - 202 pages
...in the fame ratio. C 3 NE NB Mathematicians divide the cir-r cumference of a circle into 360 equa} parts, called degrees, each degree into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 feconds. Thefe divifions being marked on a femi-circle of brafs, or on an ivory recl> angle, called... | |
| Benjamin Donne - 1796 - 120 pages
...calculating the proportion which angles bear to each other, fuppofe the circumference of every circle to be divided into 360 equal parts, called Degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; each minute into 60 equal parts named feconds, &c. Ar. B. Sometimes the... | |
| Mathematics - 1801 - 446 pages
...stands at the angular point, is rend in the middle. C 56. The 39° 5 6. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 minutes, each minute into do seconds, and so on. Hence a semicircle contains... | |
| Alexander Adam - Classical dictionaries - 1802 - 914 pages
...radii of the fame circle are always equal to one another. The circumference of every circle is fuppofed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 mi* ñutes \ each minute into 60 feccnds ; and thefe into thirds, fourths, &c. greater or ¡efs according... | |
| Abel Flint - Surveying - 1804 - 226 pages
...the Circle into two equal parts, called Semicircles ; as AB or DE. 14. The. Circumference of every Circle is supposed to be Divided into 360 equal parts, called Degrees ; and each Degree into 60 equal parts, called Minutes ; and each Minute into 60 equal parts, called... | |
| John Bonnycastle - Trigonometry - 1806 - 464 pages
...arc of 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 a semicircle,... | |
| Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1806 - 486 pages
...called semicircles ; and is double the radius, as AB or DE. fig. 8. • 18. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts called degrees, and each degree into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds,... | |
| Euclid - Geometry - 1810 - 554 pages
...circle ACF be described meeting BA, BC in A, C; the arch AC is called the measure of the angle ABC. II. The circumference of a circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts called degrees, and each degree into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds,... | |
| Thomas Keith - Navigation - 1810 - 478 pages
...measure of 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 measured... | |
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