 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1848 - 88 pages
...also in measuring the motions of the 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. 3. Repeat the table. TABLE.... | |
 | Rufus Putnam - Arithmetic - 1849 - 402 pages
...SEMICIRCLE is a half of a circle bounded by a diameter and a semicircle ; as, the surface к FH К. 45. 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.... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1849 - 184 pages
...also in measuring the motions of the 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.... | |
 | Thomas Baker - Railroads - 1850 - 244 pages
...CE be drawn, the space, bounded by these radii and the arc FE, will be the sector of a circle. 27. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be...equal parts, called degrees, and each degree into 60 minutes, each minute into 60 seconds, &c. Hence a semicircle contains 180 degrees, and a quadrant 90... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1850 - 368 pages
...the middle. Thus, the angle contained by the lines BA and AD is called the angle BAD, or DA B. 56. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be...equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 minutes, each minute into 60 seconds, and so on. Hence a semicircle contains 180 degrees, and a quadrant... | |
 | Alexander Ingram - 1851 - 202 pages
...angle, the sector is 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 are... | |
 | Charles Haynes Haswell - Engineering - 1851 - 346 pages
...that touches a circle without cutting iL A. Cotangent is the tangent of the complement of the arc. i The . Circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts .led Degrees ; each degree into 60 Minutes, and each minute into 60 Seconds, and on. The Complement... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Benjamin Naylor - Geography - 1851 - 154 pages
...of latitude are circles passing round the earth parallel to the equator. Every Circle of the earth is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each of these degrees into 60 equal parts, called minutes. The Latitude of any place is its distance North... | |
 | John Radford Young - Arithmetic - 1852 - 230 pages
...busheli, heaped measure; 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... | |
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The Circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called Degrees ; and each degree into 60 Minutes, each minute into 60 Seconds, and so on. 
