 | Samuel Adams (servant.) - 1826 - 526 pages
...is J3. ,\ Gross is 12 Dozen, or 144 A Pace is 3 Feet or a Yard. Mathematicians conceive every Circle to be divided into 360 equal Parts, called Degrees, and each Degree into 60 equal parts, called Seconds, and each Second subdivided into 60 smaller parts, called thirds, and so... | |
 | Thomas Keith - Navigation - 1826 - 504 pages
...thus the arc ac is the measure of the angle авс and 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... | |
 | Thomas Keith - Globes - 1826 - 360 pages
...1820, is 14° 13' 7" ; and its declination 88° 20' 55" N. Connoissance des Terns, for 1820, p. 168. t Every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts called degrees ; each minute, into 60 equal parts called seconds, &c. : (a degree therefore is of different lineal... | |
 | James M'Intire - Globes - 1826 - 234 pages
...which the sun describes by his annual progress in the heavens. The ecliptic cuts the equator in an •The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal jjarts, called degrees; each degree into sixty equal parts, called minutes; each minute into sixty... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - Nautical astronomy - 1826 - 732 pages
...the figure CAG. NOTE. All circles, whether great 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,... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1827 - 546 pages
...meeting BA, BC, in A, C ; the arch AC is called the measure of the angle ABC. 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,... | |
 | James Ryan - Arithmetic - 1827 - 290 pages
...are there between the 17th of March and the 25th of December ? Ans. 283. Division of the Circle. 47. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts called degrees — each degree is subdivided into 60 equal parts called minutes — each minute into 60 equal parts... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...greater part are poor and destitute. • ANGLE, a corner, formed usually by the meeting of two lines. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. A semi-circle, of course, contains li!0 degress, and a quadrant, or quarter of a circle, contains SO... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...7. The right lines, A, C, I,, and B, C, E, divide the circle inUlour equal parts called quadrants. 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;... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 814 pages
...and the oilier two sides are called the LEGS, or sometimes the base and perpendicular. Fig. 10. 40. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be...equal parts, called DEGREES, and each degree into sixty MIMUTES, each minute into sixty SECOND, and so on. Hence a semicircle contains 180 degrees, and... | |
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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. 
