 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1857 - 452 pages
...a straight line drawn from its centre to its circumference ; as CA, CB, or CD. Every circle, large or small, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. A Quadrant is one fourth of a circle, or an arc of 90°; as AB. An Angle, as ACB, is the inclination... | |
 | Daniel Adams - 1858 - 354 pages
...125 acres of wheat, which yielded 2863 bush. 1 peck 1 qt. ; what was the average per acre ? ^T 1 S3. Difference in longitude and time between different...of the earth, called the equator, divided, as you nere see. into 24 equal parts of 15 degrees each, (360° H- 24 = 15°.) As the sun apparently passes... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1858 - 458 pages
...a straight line drawn from its centre to its circumference ; as CA, CB, or CD. Every circle, large or small, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. A Quadrant is one fourth of a circle, or an arc of 90° ; as AB. An Angle, as ACB, is the inclination... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1858 - 472 pages
...a straight line drawn from its centre to its circumference ; as CA, CB, or CD. Every circle, large or small, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. A Quadrant is one fourth of a circle, or an arc of 90°; as AB. An Angle, as ACB, is the inclination... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1858 - 332 pages
...is a straight line drawn from its centre to its circumference; as CA, CB, or CD. Every circle, large or small, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. A Quadrant is one fourth of a circle, or an arc of 90° ; as AB. An Jingle, as ACB, is the inclination... | |
 | William Hughes - 1859 - 396 pages
...direction of east and west. The amount either of latitude or longitude is expressed in degrees. 8. Every circle, whether great or small, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, or Degrees. A quarter of a circle (or quadrant] contains, therefore, 90 degrees. Latitude is distance... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1860 - 324 pages
...is a straight line drawn from its centre to its circumference; as CA, CB, or CD. Every circle, large or small, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called A Quadrant is one fourth of a circle, or an arc of 90° ; as AB. An Jingle^ as ACB, is the inclination... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1861 - 452 pages
...harvested 125 acres of wheat, which yielded 2863 bu. \pk. 1 qt. ; what was the average per acre ? lO7t Difference in Longitude and Time between different...you here see, into 24 equal parts of 15 degrees each (360°-r-24 = 15°). As the sun apparently passes round the earth in 24 hours, it will pass through... | |
 | John Lockhart (of Kirkcaldy.) - 1862 - 216 pages
...equal parts or hemispheres, is called ? A great circle. And all others are called ? Small circles. Every circle, whether great or small, is supposed to be divided into ? 360 degrees. Each degree into ? 60 minutes. And each minute into 1 60 seconds. It is evident, therefore,... | |
 | Shelton Palmer Sanford - Arithmetic - 1872 - 404 pages
...and surveying, and in estimating the motions of the heavenly bodies. ART. 181. The circumference of every circle, whether great or small, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called (ftyreet. A degree, therefore, is not a quantity of invariable length, like a foot or a yard, but it... | |
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Every circle, whether great or small, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. Let the accompanying diagram represent the great circle of the earth, called the equator, divided, as you here see. 
