 | Abel Flint - Surveying - 1825 - 252 pages
...Circumference of every Circle is sipposed to be divided into 360 equal part?, called Degrees ; and each Degree into 60 equal parts, called Minutes ;...and each Minute into 60 equal parts, called Seconds ; and these into Thirds, &c. JVote. Since all Circles are divided into the same number ot Degrees,... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - Nautical astronomy - 1826 - 732 pages
...or small, are supposed to have their circumference divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ;...and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds, and so on into thirds, fourths,* be. and an arch is said to be. of as many degrees as it contains parts... | |
 | Thomas Keith - Navigation - 1826 - 504 pages
...the arc DE is the measure of the angle ABC. (H) 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. The angles are measured by the number of degrees cut... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - Nautical astronomy - 1826 - 782 pages
...small, are supposed to have th cumference divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each deçr 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts. seconds, and so on into thirds, fourths,* be. and an arch is said to bi many degrees as it contains... | |
 | Miles Bland - Euclid's Elements - 1827 - 462 pages
...angle (7.) Till lately. Geometers almost unanimously agreed to divide the circumference of the circle into 360 equal parts called Degrees ; each degree...and each minute into 60 equal parts called Seconds, &c. This method appeared to the Greek Geometers to afford some facilities for calculations, in consequence... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1827 - 546 pages
...II. The circumference of a 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 seconds, &c. And as many degrees, minutes, seconds, &c. as are contained in any arch, of so many degrees, minutes,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1827 - 1014 pages
...circle be divided into 360 equal parts, each of them is called a degree. Each degree is subdivided into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called * Geography is a description of the earth ; and is distinguished by different names, according to tha... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...the circle inUlour equal parts called quadrants. The circumference of every circle, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; each...and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds; and these into thirds, &c. Now, as all circles are not of the same magnitude, and as they are all divided... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1828 - 346 pages
...For the purposes of trigonometrical calculations, the circumference of the circle is conceived to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each...and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. The semicircumference, or the measure of two right angles, contains 180 degrees; the quarter of the... | |
 | Thomas Kerigan - Nautical astronomy - 1828 - 776 pages
...hemisphere, and the other, the southern hemisphere. — The equator, like all other great circles, is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes } each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds, and so on. The Meridian, of any place on the earth... | |
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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 seconds. 
