 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 630 pages
...circle in which the artificial globe turns, divided into 360 degrees. 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, &c. ; a degree is therefore only a relative... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1852 - 430 pages
...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. Degrees, minutes, and seconds are marked... | |
 | James B. Dodd - Arithmetic - 1852 - 410 pages
...Circumference, and the Measure of Angles. § 304. The Circumference of every circle is conceived 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. Degrees, minutes, and seconds, are denoted... | |
 | James B. Dodd - 1853 - 398 pages
...Circumference, and the Measure of Angles. § 393. The Circumference of every circle is conceived 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. Degrees, minutes, and seconds, are denoted... | |
 | Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - Mathematics - 1855 - 628 pages
...computation. For the purpose of comparing angles in this system of measurement, the entire circumference is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. The right angle contains 90 degrees.... | |
 | Hiram Mattison - Astronomy - 1856 - 254 pages
...is sometimes called radiations or radiance. All circles, whether great or small, are 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. They are marked respectively thus: Degrees... | |
 | Bourdon (M., Louis Pierre Marie) - Arithmetic - 1858 - 262 pages
...from a point within, called the centre. In all the scientific works in this country, the circumference is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees (°) ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes (,); each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ("). This is called the sexagesimal division.... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - Measurement - 1859 - 494 pages
...and angles which principally depend on the properties of the circle, and circular arcs. Every circle 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 by a sexigesimal division into thirds,... | |
 | Josiah Lyman - Protractors - 1862 - 92 pages
...the fourth part of a circle; as AFB, Fig. 1. 8. 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, &c. 9. The Measure of an angle is the... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1863 - 482 pages
...(See the next figure.) 3. The circumference of a circle is supposed to be divided or to be divisible into. 360 equal parts, called degrees; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes; each of these into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; and so on to the minutest possible subdivisions.... | |
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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. 
