| Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1831 - 632 pages
...point, 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...and each degree into 60 Minutes, each Minute into CO Seconds, and so on. Hence a semicircle contains ISOdegrees, and a quadrant 90 degrees. 58. The Measure... | |
| George Crabb - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 426 pages
...centre to the circumference; the segment of a circle is a part cut ofl' by a line called the chord. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, every degree into 60 parts, called minutes, and every minute into 60 parts, called seconds. Solids... | |
| Ira Wanzer - Arithmetic - 1831 - 408 pages
...or 360 degrces,= {he ^. Note 1. — This table is used by Astronomers, Navigators, &c. Note 2. — The circumference of 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 seconds, and each second into... | |
| Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1832 - 182 pages
...in Vermont, contains 38 quarts, or 2552.6 cubic inches. * Every circle, without regard to its size, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and these again to be subdivided into minutes and seconds; so that the absolute quantity expressed by any... | |
| Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1832 - 186 pages
...in Vermont, contains 38 quarts, or 2553.6 cubic inches. * Every circle, without regard to its size, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and these again to be subdivided into minutes and seconds; so that the absolute quantity expressed by any... | |
| Abel Flint - Geometry - 1835 - 368 pages
...centre ; and it divides the circle into two equal parts, called semicircles ; as AB or DE. Fig. 5. 14. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be...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... | |
| Abel Flint - Geometry - 1835 - 366 pages
...Tivides the circle into two equal parts, calle. .emicircles ; as AB or DE. Fig. 5. 14. The , jmference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360...equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minute*; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds; and these into thirds,... | |
| Euclid - 1835 - 540 pages
...and BC, in A and C ; the arch AC is called the measure of the angle ABC. II. The circumference of a 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, &c. A degree is marked... | |
| Thomas Spofford - Almanacs, American - 1835 - 84 pages
...every part of the circumference ia equally distant from a point within the circle, called the centre. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be 'divided into 360 equal parts called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parls called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds.... | |
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