 | Samuel Webber - Arithmetic - 1812 - 260 pages
...unity of measure. It is equal to a cubic metre, containing 35-3171 cubic feet English. The decestere is the tenth of a stere. , The quadrant of the circle...comprehended in this system, and made to conform to their unity of weight. The weight of the Franc, of which one tenth is alloy, is fixed at five grammes ; its... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Bridges - 1812 - 514 pages
...way, and containing the log. sines, tangents, and secants, of the quadrant, divided first into 10O degrees, each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. The logarithmic canon serves to find, readily the logarithm of any assigned number; and we are told... | |
 | Leonhard Euler - Algebra - 1821 - 380 pages
...unit of measure. It is equal to a cubic metre, containing 35,3171 cubic feet English. The decestere is the tenth of a stere. The quadrant of the circle...their unit of weight. The weight of the franc, of which one tenth is alloy, is fixed at 5 grammes ; its tenth part is called decime, its hundredth part... | |
 | Silvestre François Lacroix - Arithmetic - 1825 - 404 pages
...metre. The milliare is 1000th of an are. The decare is equal to 10 ares; the heeatare to 100 ares, and equal to 2 acres, 1 rood, 35,4 perches English....their unit of weight. The weight of the franc, of which one tenth is alloy, is fixed at 5 grammes ; its tenth part is called dlcime, its hundredth part... | |
 | James Hayward - Geometry - 1829 - 218 pages
...26 ; a different system has been adopted in France. This system divides the circumference into 400 degrees ; each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. we draw through the centre, the two lines an and 6 m, parallel to the two lines AN and BM, they will... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Astronomy - 1838 - 426 pages
...fixed upon : and hence the French, in their measures of the circle, divide it into 400 equal parts or degrees; each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. The reason why the number 360 appears to have been selected is, that this number may be divided into... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Astronomy - 1838 - 444 pages
...fixed upon : and hence the French, in their measures of the circle, divide it into 400 equal parts or degrees ; each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. The reason why the number 360 appears to have been selected is, that this number may be divided into... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1842 - 744 pages
...by the sign ('" ) J bat more frequently decimals are used to express the unaller divisions. called degrees ; each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. When this division is used by English writers, they generally give the name of grades to the degrees.... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Educational sociology - 1850 - 586 pages
...fixed upon : and hence the French, in their measures of the circle, divide it into 400 equal parts or degrees ; each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. The reason why the number 360 appears to have been selected is, that this number may be divided into... | |
 | John Russell Hind - Astronomy - 1852 - 76 pages
...division of the circle occasionally employed in astronomical tables. The circumference is divided into 400 degrees, each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. Central Eclipse. — See Eclipse. Cepheus. — One of the ancient' northern constellations. Ceres.... | |
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The decestere is the tenth of a stere. The quadrant of the circle generally is divided like the fourth part of the meridian, into 100 degrees, each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds, &c. so that the same number, which expresses... 
