 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 394 pages
...very many. There are four species. GLOBE, a round or spherical body, more usually called a sphere, bounded by one uniform convex surface, every point...which is equally distant from a point within, called its centre. Euclid defines the globe or sphere, to be a solid figure described by the revolution of... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1819 - 574 pages
...DEFTNITIONS. 437. A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle I LIE (Jig. 220) about its diameter D'E ; Fig. for the... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 308 pages
...perpendicular height, and take one third of the product. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. Rule for finding the surface of a sphere or any segment or zone thereof. Multiply the circumference... | |
 | James Mitchell - Mathematics - 1823 - 666 pages
...SPECULUM, the same as Mirror. SPHERK. or ULOBE, in Geometry, is a solid contained under one uniform surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre of the sphere, and may be conceived to be generated by the revolution ot a semi-circle Rbout its diameter,... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - Surveying - 1824 - 476 pages
...axis or diameter of the sphere ; or it is a solid bounded by one continued convex surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 14. The segment of a sphere is any part of it cut off by a plane. If the plane pass through the centre,... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre, John Farrar - Geometry - 1825 - 294 pages
...DEFINITIONS. ' 437. A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE (fig. 220) about its diameter DE ; Fig. 220. for the... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre, John Farrar - Geometry - 1825 - 280 pages
...DEFINITIONS. 437. A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE (fig. 220) about its diameter DE; Fig. 220. for the... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1826 - 308 pages
...from the full to tht 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... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1826 - 176 pages
...having a circle for its base. 8. A sphere is a solid bounded by one continued convex surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. Mensuration of Solids teaches to determine the spaces included bv contiguous surfaces, and the sum... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...circumference by 3.14159. NOTE 1. A globe is a rouml, solid body, bounded by a surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. OBs. 1. The surface of a globe may be found by the following The largest ball near the top of the spire... | |
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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. 
