 | Thomas Milner - 1850 - 604 pages
...hemispheres, as the equator, etc. Small circles divide the globe into two unequal parts, as the tropics, etc. Every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; every degree into sixty equal parts, called minutes ; and every minute into sixty equal parts, called... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - 1850 - 350 pages
...centre ; and it divides the circle into two equal parts called semicircles. 14. The circumference of every 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... | |
 | Alexander Ingram - 1851 - 202 pages
...called a Quadrant ; and, if half a right angle, it is called an Octant. NOTE 2. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and a degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes, and a minute into 60 seconds, and so on. Degrees... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1851 - 178 pages
...also in measuring the motions of th« heavenly bodies. 2. How is every circle supposed to be divided ? Every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. Each degree is divided into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. Solid, or Cubic Measure. 1.... | |
 | John Radford Young - Arithmetic - 1852 - 230 pages
...but heaped measure is now abolished. DIVISION op THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF A CIRCLE. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; these, of course, are longer or shorter, according as the circle is greater or less. Each degree is... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1852 - 430 pages
...measured by the arcs of a circle contained by the two legs, having the angular point for its centre. 4. 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.... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1852 - 344 pages
...latitude and longitude, and also in measuring the motions of the heavenly bodies. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. Each degree is divided into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. TABLE. 1. How many seconds... | |
 | Thomas Kentish - Geometrical drawing - 1852 - 272 pages
...these problems repeated at the end of the Uses of the Slide Rule. TRIGONOMETRY. THE circumference of a circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. Each degree is divided into 60 minutes; each minute into GO seconds; and so on. Degrees are marked... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1852 - 436 pages
...the six parts is given. 3. For the purpose of trigonometrical calculation, the circumference of the circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree is supposed to be divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1886 - 340 pages
...the six parts is given. 21. For the purpose of trigonometrical calculation, the circumference of the circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree is supposed to be di. rided into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into... | |
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