| Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1819 - 574 pages
...SECTION THIRD. Of the Sphere. DEFTNITIONS. 437. A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle I LIE (Jig.... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1822 - 394 pages
...CIRCLE, AND THE MEASUREMENT OF ITS ANGLES. Definitions. \ • I. The circumference of a circle is a curve line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this curve line. Note. In common language, the circle... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre, John Farrar - Geometry - 1825 - 294 pages
...SECOND. , Of the Circle and the Measure of Angles. DEFINITIONS. 90. THE circumference of a circle is a curved line all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this curved line*. . ^ Fig.,46. 91. Every straight... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre, John Farrar - Geometry - 1825 - 280 pages
...SECOND. Of the Circle and the Measure of Angles. DEFINITIONS. 90. THE circumference of a circle is a curved line all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this curved line*. Fig. 46. 91. Every straight line... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre - 1825 - 570 pages
...SECOND. Of the Circle and the Measure of Angles. DEFINITIONS. ^0. THE circumference of a circle is a curved line all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this curved line*. 46. 91. Every straight line CA,... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1828 - 346 pages
...: a2. BOOK VII. THE SPHERE. Definitions. 437. The sphere is a solid terminated by a curve surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. D The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about... | |
| Timothy Walker - Geometry - 1829 - 156 pages
...the two definitions of a straight line and a curve. THE CIRCLE AND ITS PARTS. DBF. — A circle is a figure bounded by a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from one point called the centre. Thus if all the points in the curved line BCGDFE (fig. 5) are equally... | |
| Timothy Walker - Geometry - 1829 - 138 pages
...described by the point B the circumference of a circle, which we define to be — a curved line fill the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre — . The whole space enclosed is called a circle, the moving line AB a radius, and the... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1836 - 394 pages
...BOOK III. THE CIRCLE, AND THE MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES. Definitions. 1. The circumference of a circle is a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this curved line.* 2. Every straight line, CA, CE,... | |
| Benjamin Peirce - Geometry - 1837 - 216 pages
...CHAPTER VIII. THB CIRCLE AND THE MEASURE OF ANGLES. • 84. Definitions. The circumference of a circle is a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this curved line. . 85. Definitions. The radius of... | |
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