 | Rev. John Allen - Astronomy - 1822 - 516 pages
...tailed acute.* * Mathematicians have supposed the whole circumference of a circle to be divided in 360 equal parts, called degrees, each degree into...called minutes and each minute into 60 equal parts, cal:ed seconds, &c. and a circle being described iron) the vertex of an angle, as a centre, an angle... | |
 | Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 706 pages
...centre from one side of the circumference to the other. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 minutes ; each minute into GO seconds. An arc of a circle is part of its circumference. All angles... | |
 | Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 706 pages
...centre from one side of the circumference to the other. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 minutes ; each minute into 60 seconds. An arc of a circle is part of its circumference. All angles... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - Surveying - 1824 - 476 pages
...part of a circle bounded by an arc and two radii. 47. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees...and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. 48. The arc of a quadrant contains 90 degrees, which is the measure of a right angle. 49. Ap ellipse... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1824 - 440 pages
...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 °,... | |
 | George G. Carey - Astronomy - 1825 - 274 pages
...in the plane of the circle. 8. Degrees, fyc. — All circles, whether great or small, are supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees;...and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds, &c.f 9. An Angle is the inclination of two lines which meet in a point, and is always some part of... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1825 - 590 pages
...circumference of all circles, whether small or great, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, which are called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts called...and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds, in the same manner as a yard is divided into 3 equal parts called feet, a foot into 12 equal parts... | |
 | Abel Flint - Surveying - 1825 - 252 pages
...Circumference of every Circle is sipposed to be divided into 360 equal part?, 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. JVote. Since all Circles are divided into the same number ot Degrees,... | |
 | Thomas Keith - Navigation - 1826 - 504 pages
...авс and the arc DE is the measure of the angle ABC. (H) 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 equal parts called seconds. The angles are measured by the number of degrees cut... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - Nautical astronomy - 1826 - 732 pages
...or small, are supposed to have their circumference 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 so on into thirds, fourths,* be. and an arch is said to be. of as many degrees as it contains parts... | |
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The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. 
