 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1809 - 574 pages
...Capricorn, in the southern. Sjihtre, in a geometrical sense, is a solid contained under a uniformly-curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a certain point within the same, called the centre. This term is applied to the several celestial bodies, as they are probably... | |
 | John Lathrop - Astronomy - 1812 - 218 pages
...circumference, is called a diameter. 8. A sphere is a solid body contained under one single uniform surface, every point of which Is equally distant from a certain point in the middle, called its centre. 9. Axis is a real or imaginary line, passing through the centre of... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 714 pages
...geometry, one of the round bodiet more usually called л sauere: it is bounded by one uniform convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a certain point within »ailed the centre. ForEiu-lid'sdefinition.eeethearticleGEOMiTRT. If <l denote the diameter of the... | |
 | Ezra S. Winslow - Business mathematics - 1853 - 264 pages
...half the parameter. A Sphere, or globe, is a perfectly round substance — a solid contained under a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. Its axis, or diameter, is any right line passing from a side through... | |
 | John Brocklesby - Astronomy - 1855 - 394 pages
...Eccentric, from ex out of , and centrum centre, (Latin) out of the centre. 19. A SPHERE. 'A sphere is a solid, bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre; every line passing through this centre, and limited by the surface,... | |
 | Cornelius S. Cartee - Physical geography - 1855 - 348 pages
...horizontal line. 105. A triangle is a figure having three angles and three sides. 106. A sphere is a figure bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from the centre of the sphere. A hemisphere is half a sphere. The axis of a sphere is the line on which... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1856 - 450 pages
...perpendicular distance between them 52 chains ? 337. A circle is a portion of a plane bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a certain point within, called the centre. The curved line AEBD is called the circumference ; the point C the centre ; the... | |
 | Cornelius Sowle Cartée - Physical geography - 1861 - 356 pages
...horizontal line. 105. A triangle is a figure having three angles and three sides. 106. A sphere is a figure bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from the centre of the sphere. A hemisphere is half a sphere. The axis of a sphere is the line on which... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1861 - 496 pages
...distance between them 52 chains ? Circle. 411. A CIRCLE is a portion of a plane bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a certain point within, called the center The curved line AEBD is called the circumference; the point C, the center; the line... | |
 | James Stewart Eaton - 1862 - 320 pages
...frustum of a cone, whose hight is 12 feet and whose bases are 6 feet and 4 feet in diameter ? 4.OO. A SPHERE or GLOBE is a solid bounded by a curved surface, all parts of the surface being equally distant from a point within, called the centre. A diameter of... | |
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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. 
