 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...quarter of a circle, is a sector having a quarter of the circumference for its arc. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; each deip-ee into 60 minutes; and each minute into 60 seconds -. hence a semicircle contains ISO degrees,... | |
 | Charles DAVIES (LL.D.) - Arithmetic - 1843 - 348 pages
...used in estimating latitude and longitude, and also in measuring the motions of the heavenly bodies. Every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. TABLE. 60 seconds " make 1 minute, marked '. 60 minutes - - 1 degree, - - °. 30 degrees - - 1 sign,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1844 - 666 pages
...used in estimating latitude and longitude, and also in measuring the motions of the heavenly bodies. Every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. 60 seconds " make 1 minute, marked '. 60 minutes - - 1 degree, - - °, 30 degrees - - 1 sign, - - -... | |
 | Enoch Lewis - Conic sections - 1844 - 240 pages
...a semicircle, is called its supplement. Thus BHD is the supplement of AB. 10. 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,... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Classical geography - 1844 - 356 pages
...and the other the south pole ; and they are each 90 degrees from the equator. 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 secotuls.... | |
 | Robert Griffith Hatfield - Architecture - 1845 - 326 pages
...27,) then each of the two angles is called a right angle. 131. — Definition. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; hence a semi-circle contains 180 degrees, a quadrant 90, &c. o Fig. 96. 132. — Definition. The... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1845 - 310 pages
...used in calculating latitude and longitude, and also in measuring the motions of the heavenly bodies. Every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. TABLE. 60 seconds (") make 1 minute, . marked 60 minutes, 1 degree, ° 30 degrees 1 sign, s. 12 signs,... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Conic sections - 1845 - 542 pages
...circumference may be regarded as the measure of angular magnitude. For this purpose the circumference of the circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each of those degrees is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - 1845 - 894 pages
...circumference may be regarded as the measure of angular magnitude. For this purpose the circumference of the circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each of those degrees is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into CO equal... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Geometry - 1845 - 506 pages
...circumference may be regarded as the measure of angular magnitude. For this purpose the circumference of the circle is supposed to be divided into. 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each of those degrees is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, find each minute into 60 equal... | |
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The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees... 
