| Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1839 - 434 pages
...measuring the latter, a circle is introduced. The periphery of every circle, whether great or small, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts called degrees, each degree into 60 minutes, each minute into 60 seconds, each second into 60 thirds, &c., marked with the characters °,... | |
| Charles Davies - Surveying - 1839 - 376 pages
...accuracy. 41. For the purposes of trigonometrical calculations, the circumference of the circle is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. PLANE TRIGONOMETRY. V As the circumference of... | |
| Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1839 - 356 pages
...contained by the lines B, A and A, D is called the angle B, A, D, or D, A, B. 56. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 minutes, each minute into 60 seconds ; and so on. Hence a semicircle contains... | |
| J. David Parkes - 1839 - 222 pages
...Aquarius, and X Pisces, which are called the twelve signs of the Zodiac. Each sign is divided into 30 equal parts, called degrees, each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds, and so on to thirds, fourths, fifths, &c. Abréviations. — * Sextile;... | |
| Thomas Baker (C.E.) - 1865 - 174 pages
...space, bounded by these radii and the arc FE, will be the sector of a circle. 27. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each degree into 60 minutes, each minute into 60 seconds, &e. Hence a semicircle contains 180 degrees,... | |
| C. Davies - 1867 - 342 pages
...GEOMETRYDefinitions 28 The circumference of a circle is used for the measurement of angles- For this purpose it is divided into 360 equal parts called degrees, each degree into 60 equal parts called ninutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called secondsThe degrees, minutes, and seconds are marked... | |
| Gerardus Beekman Docharty - Geometry - 1867 - 474 pages
...the two sides, that which stands at the angular point is read in the middle. 57. The Circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called Degrees ; and each degree into 60 Minutes, each minute into 60 Seconds, and so on. Hence a semicircle contains... | |
| George William Cox - Art - 1867 - 1002 pages
...continuation ; half of this is a riglit a»r/le. In the ordinary measurement of an nn^le. a complete rotation is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts called degrees (°), each depr. ••«• being subdivided into 60 equal parts called minutes^), and each minute again into... | |
| Elias Loomis - Trigonometry - 1868 - 380 pages
...of plane triangles; Spherical Trigonometry treats of spherical triangles. (19.) The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 6O minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. Degrees, minutes, and seconds are designated by the characters... | |
| Asa Smith - 1868 - 86 pages
...— The boundary of a circle. The circumference of every circle ˇв supposed to be divided into and equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. Circumpolar Start.— Those stars which revolve... | |
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