 The radius of a sphere is a straight line, drawn from the centre to any point of the surface ; the diameter, or axis, is a line passing through this centre, and terminated on both sides by the surface.  Observational Geometry - Page 108by William Taylor Campbell - 1899 - 240 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Davis (of Providence, R.I.) - Circle-squaring - 1854 - 168 pages
...the circle. The radius of a circle is a straight line drawn from the centre to the circumference. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to the surface. An angle is the opening between two lines which meet each other at a point. One straight line is perpendicular... | |
 | Henry Kiddle - 1854 - 154 pages
...is a straight line drawn through the centre, terminated both ways by the surface of the sphere. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to the surface. Circles drawn on the surface of a sphere are of two kinds, great and small. Great circles are those... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1854 - 534 pages
...by a surface, of which every point is equally distant from a point within it called the centre. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point in the sphere. IV. A straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1854 - 436 pages
...sphere, any circular sector, as DCF, or FCA, describes a solid, called a spherical sector. 11. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point of the surface ; the diameter or axis is a line passing through the centre, and terminated,... | |
 | George Roberts Perkins - Geometry - 1856 - 460 pages
...described in this movement by the curve DAE will have all its points equally distant from the centre C. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point in the surface ; the diameter, or axis, is a line passing through this centre, and terminated... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1860 - 1020 pages
...described by the motion of the curve ABP will have all its points equally distant from the centre Ü 2. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point on the surface. The diameter or axis of a sphere is a straight line drawn through the centre,... | |
 | George Roberts Perkins - Geometry - 1860 - 472 pages
...described in this movement by the curve DAE will have all its points equally distant from the centre C. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point in the surface ; the diameter, or axis, is a line passing through this centre, and terminated... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1862 - 532 pages
...formed by the revolution of a semicircle, DAE, about its diameter, DE, which remains fixed. 498. The RADIUS of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point in surface, as the line С В. The DIAMETER, or Axis, of a sphere is a line passing through... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1862 - 518 pages
...formed by the revolution of a semicircle, DAE, about its diameter, DE, which remains fixed. 498. The RADIUS of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point in surface, as the line C B. The DIAMETER, or Axis, of a sphere is a line passing through... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1866 - 328 pages
...formed by the revolution of a semicircle, DAE, about its diameter, DE, which remains fixed. 498. The RADIUS of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the centre to any point in surface, as the line C B. The DIAMETER, or Axis, of a sphere is a line passing through... | |
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