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" A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. "
Cyclopedia of Architecture: Architectural drawing. Lettering - Page 48
1912
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Rudimentary treatise on mensuration and measuring

Thomas Baker (C.E.) - 1865 - 174 pages
...is a round pyramid, having a circular base. 8. A sphere is a solid bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. — The sphere maybe conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its...
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Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry

C. Davies - 1867 - 342 pages
...a cone; and a frustum of a pyramid may be inscribed in the frustum of a cone7 A SPHERE is a volume bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centreThe distance from the centre to the circumference is called the radius- The diameter is a...
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The Southern Review, Volume 1

Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1867 - 1204 pages
...perimeter of the polygon.'* But, on the contrary, 'A circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre.'^ Now, here, as in all other works on Geometry, the polygon and the circle are defined...
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Practical Arithmetic, Embracing the Science of Numbers and the Art of ...

John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1868 - 428 pages
...altitude is 9 feet? Ans. 183 cu.ft. SPHERES. 514. A Sphere, or Globe is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. The Diameter of a sphere is a line passing through its centre and terminating in its surface. The Radius is half...
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Stoddard's Complete Arithmetic: Being the New Practical Arithmetic of the ...

John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1888 - 480 pages
...and whose altitude is 9 feet ? Ans, SFHE! R El S . A Sphere, or Globe is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within 'called the center. TJie Diameter of a sphere is a line passing through its centre and terminating in its surface. The...
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Treatise on Geometry and Trigonometry: For Colleges, Schools and Private ...

Eli Todd Tappan - Geometry - 1868 - 438 pages
...the following definitions: A CIRCLE is a portion of a plane bounded by a line called a CIRCUMFERENCE, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the CENTER. 146. Theorem. — A circumference is curved throughout. For a straight line can not have more than...
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The Grammar-school Arithmetic: Being Book Second of the Analysis of Written ...

Stoddard A. Felter - Arithmetic - 1868 - 360 pages
...perpendicular to AB at its centre is called the minor diameter. 313. A Sphere is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre; as Fig. 22. 3 14. A Spheroid is a solid, generated by the revolution of an ellipse about...
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A New Manual of the Elements of Astronomy: Descriptive and Mathematical ...

Henry Kiddle - Astronomy - 1868 - 300 pages
...bounded by lines is called a PLANE FIGURE. Pig. i. 10. A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curve line every point of which is equally distant from, a point within, called the centre. 11. The curve line that bounds a circle is called the CIRCUMFERENCE. 12. The DIAMETER of...
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An introduction to plane astronomy

Philip Thomas Main - Astronomy - 1868 - 224 pages
...definitions and prove a few propositions relating to the geometry of the sphere. DBF. A sphere is a surface every point of which is equally distant from a point within it called the centre. It follows at once that every plane section of a sphere through the centre is...
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Practical Arithmetic, by Induction and Analysis

Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1857 - 358 pages
...the square. 19. A CIRCLE is a figure bounded by a curvo line, called the circumference, every part of •which is equally distant from a point within, called the center. A DIAJIETEK is a straight line passing through the center and terminated both ways by the circumference....
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