| 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. 220) about its... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1825 - 276 pages
...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...this curved line*. 91. Every straight line CA, CE, CD (fig. 46), &c. drawn from the centre to the circumference is called a radius or semidiumoter, and every... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre - 1825 - 570 pages
...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...circle is the space terminated by this curved line*. 46. 91. Every straight line CA, CE, CD (fig. 46), &c. drawn from the centre to the circumference is... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre, John Farrar - Geometry - 1825 - 280 pages
...SECTION THIRD. • Of the Sphere. DEFINITIONS. 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 DAE (fig. 220) about its... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre, John Farrar - Geometry - 1825 - 294 pages
...SECTION THIRD. Of the Sphere. DEFINITIONS. ' 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 DAE (fig. 220) about its... | |
| 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 fixed point A the centre.... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1836 - 394 pages
...pyramid is said to be inscribed in the cone. 8. The 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 DAE about its diameter DE... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1837 - 376 pages
...therefore, MxR : NxS : : PxT : QxV. BOOK III. THE CIRCLE, AND THE MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES Definitions. I/The circumference of a circle is a curve'! line, all the...from a point within, called the centre. The circle is (.he space terminated by A. this curved line.* 2. Every straight line, CA, CE, CD, drawn from the centre... | |
| Benjamin Peirce - Geometry - 1837 - 216 pages
...Sphere. CHAPTER XVIII. THE SPHERE. 415. Definition. 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. 41G. Corollary. The sphere may be conceived to be generated l,y the revolution of a semicircle, DAE... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1838 - 372 pages
...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 Ihe space terminated by this curved line.* 2. Every straight line, CA, CE, CD, drawn from the centre... | |
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