 | Thomas Keith - Astronomy - 1811 - 388 pages
...ascention, for the beginning of the year 1804, was 13° 14' 43" and its declination 80° "15' 44" north. $ Every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts called minutes ; each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds,... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 462 pages
...measured by the arcs of a circle, contained between the two legs, having the angular point for its centre. Ev.ery circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parti, called minutes $ each minute into' 60 equal parts, called seconds.... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 406 pages
...and the other two on 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 equnl parts, called Degrees : and each degree into 60 Minutes, each minute into 60 Seconds, and so... | |
 | Adam Walker - 1812 - 92 pages
...language of geography 59° 56'N. and 30° 24'E.; for every circle, large or small, real or imaginary, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and every degree into 60 parts, called minutes; and every minute into 60 parts, called seconds, marked... | |
 | Abel Flint - Surveying - 1813 - 214 pages
...the Centre; and it divides the Circle into two equal parts, called Semicircles; as AB or DE. ,, 14. The Circumference of every Circle is supposed to be...equal parts, called Seconds; and these into Thirds, &tc. Note. Since all Circles are divided into the same number of Degrees, a Degree is not to be accounted... | |
 | Caleb Alexander - Arithmetic - 1813 - 152 pages
...The circumference of every circle, is supposed tobe divided into 360 equal parts, called degree»; and each degree, into 60 equal parts, called minutes;...equal parts, called seconds, and these into thirds, fourtUs, &c. 14. Parallel lines are equidistant from each other. 15 A figure, having three equal sides,... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Physics - 1813 - 448 pages
...star a. 762. Each of the 12 signs of the zodiac is divided into 30 smaller parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes, and each minute into 60 parts, called seconds. The division of the zodiac into signs, is of very ancient date, each sign having... | |
 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1814 - 558 pages
...circumference into t wo equal parts, called semicircles; and isdoublethe radius, as AB or DE. fig. 8. 16. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be...each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds, and tiiese into thirds, fourths, &c. these parts being greater or less as the radius is.17. A chord is... | |
 | Abner Alden - English language - 1814 - 222 pages
...earth ? A. By supposing the earth to be circumscribed by a .certain number of circles ; and each circle to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees...and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. Q. What is a great circle ? A. A great circle is one, whose plane is supposed to pas through the centre... | |
 | Euclides - 1814 - 560 pages
...of the angle ABC. II. The circumference of a circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal part* called degrees, and each degree into 60 equal parts...and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds, &c. And as many degrees, minutes, seconds, &c. as are contained in any arch, of so many degrees, minutes,... | |
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The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; and these into thirds, &c. 
