 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1826 - 308 pages
...last quarter. GLOBE, a round or spherical body, more usually called a sphere, bounded by one uniform convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point with ia called the centre. GRAVITY, a term used by physica bodies move towards each other, unles prevented... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Astronomy - 1829 - 312 pages
...or milky way. GLOBE, a round or spherical body, more usually called a sphere, bounded by one uniform convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. GRAVITY, a term used by physical HARMONY, in musick, the agreeable result, or union,... | |
 | Alexander Ingram - Mathematics - 1830 - 458 pages
...how to compute the sides and angles of spherical triangles. A SPHERE is a solid bounded by a curve surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the centre. A sphere may be conceived to be generated by a semicircle revolving about its... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1839 - 356 pages
...at the top, called the vertex of the pyramid. 7. A cone is a round pyramid, baring a circular base. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex...point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1841 - 334 pages
...at the top, called the vertex of the pyramid. 7. A eone is a round pyramid, having a circular base. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued conveX...point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1841 - 324 pages
...at the top, called the vertex of the pyramid. 7. A cone is a round pyramid, having a circular base. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex...point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about... | |
 | Richard Abbatt - Spherical astronomy - 1841 - 234 pages
...miles. SECTION V. SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. (68.) Def. A sphere is a solid bounded on all sides by a curve surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. A sphere may be conceived to be generated by a semicircle's revolving about its... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1841 - 200 pages
...solidity of a globe, or sphere. DEFINITION. — A globe or sphere is (J) a round body bounded by a surface every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre; a line passing from one side to the other through the centre is called the diameter,... | |
 | John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee COMSTOCK - 1846 - 506 pages
...last quarter. GLOBE. A round or spherical body, more usually called a sphere, bounded by one uniform convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. GNOMON. An apparatus used by the ancients for finding the altitudes and declinations... | |
 | James Robinson (of Boston.) - 1847 - 304 pages
...a pyramid, and the figure F, the frustum of a cone. 7. 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 centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about... | |
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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. 
