...fyc. The geographical measure of distance is a degree or 360th part of a great circle of the earth; the degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds. Circles passing round the earth parallel to the equator at given distances from each other, whether...

...fyc. The geographical measure of distance is a degree or 360th part of a great circle of the earth ; the degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds. Circles passing round the earth parallel to the equator at given distances from each other, whether...

...fyc. The geographical measure of distance is a degree or 3GOth part of a gieat circle of the earth ; the degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds. Circles passing round the earth parallel to the equator at given distances from each other, whether...

...circumference of any circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts. Each of these is called a degree, the degree is divided into 60 minutes, and the minute into 60 seconds. The abbreviations for these three words are ° - ", so that 5 degrees 27 minutes 34 seconds is written...

...circumference, whether large О or small, be divided into 360 equal arcs, each arc is called a degree. The degree is divided into 60 minutes, and the minute into 60 seconds. The length of a degree, minute, or second, depends on the size of the circle. If the size of the circle...

...circumference, whether large O or small, be divided into 360 equal arcs, each arc is called a degree. The degree is divided into 60 minutes, and the minute into 60 seconds. The length of a degree, minute, or second, depends on the size of the circle. If the size of the circle...

...circumference, whether large or small, be divided into 860 equal arcs, each arc is called a degree. The degree is divided into 60 minutes, and the minute into 60 seconds. The length of a degree, minute, or second, depends on the size of the circle. If the size of the circle...

...circumference, whethIL^, cr large or small, be divided into • 360 equal ares, each arc is called a degree. The degree is divided into 60 minutes, and the minute into 60 seconds. The length of a degree, minute, or second, dependa on the size of the circle. If the size of the circle...

...distance around it is called its circumference. Any part of the cir- H cumference is called an arc. degree is divided into 60 minutes, and the minute into 60 seconds. The length of a degree, minute, or second, depends on the size of the circle. If the size of the circle...

...same kind taken as a unit. The primary unit of angular measure is the right angle. The right angle is divided into 90 equal parts called degrees; the degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes ; the minute is divided into 60 equal parts called seconds. Seconds are...