 | Adriano Balbi - Geography - 1835 - 578 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1841 - 516 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1856 - 1016 pages
...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... | |
 | George Heppel - 1864 - 234 pages
...length of the 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... | |
 | Stoddard A. Felter - Arithmetic - 1864 - 430 pages
...2, If any circumference, whether largf or small, be divided into 300 equal arcs, each arc is cjilled a degree. The degree is divided into 60 minutes, and the minute into tJO seconds. The length of a degree, minute, or second, depends on the size of the circle. If the size... | |
 | Stoddard A. Felter - Arithmetic - 1866 - 338 pages
...called an arc. 2. If any circumference, whether large О or small, be divided into 360 equal arcs, each arc is called a degree. The degree is divided...seconds. The length of a degree, minute, or second, depends on the size of the circle. If the size of the circle is increased ov decreased, the length... | |
 | Stoddard A. Felter - Arithmetic - 1862 - 312 pages
...is called an arc. 2. If any circumference, whether large O or small, be divided into 360 equal arcs, each arc is called a degree. The degree is divided...seconds. The length of a degree, minute, or second, depends on the size of the circle. If the size of the circle is increased or decreased, the length... | |
 | Stoddard A. Felter - Arithmetic - 1868 - 360 pages
...is called an arc. 2. If any circumference, whether large or small, be divided into 860 equal arcs, each arc is called a degree. The degree is divided...seconds. The length of a degree, minute, or second, depends on the size of the circle. If the size of the circle is increased or decreased, the length... | |
 | Wilshire S. Courtney - Agriculture - 1869 - 532 pages
...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...seconds. The length of a degree, minute, or second, depends on the size of the circle. If the size of the circle is increased or decreased, the length... | |
 | Wilshire S. Courtney - Agriculture - 1878 - 590 pages
...around it is called its cireum- *ii fcrence. Any part of the cir- H cumference'is called an arc. Q degree is divided into 60 minutes, and the minute...seconds. The length of a degree, minute, or second, depends on the size of the circle. If the size of the circle is increased or decreased, the length... | |
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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 is... 
