 | Alexander Ingram - Mathematics - 1830 - 458 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. NOTE 3. If two... | |
 | George Crabb - Industrial arts - 1830 - 438 pages
...centre to the circumference; the segment of a circle is a part cut off by a liue called the chord. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, every degree into 60 parts called minutes, and every minute into 60 parts called seconds. Solids are... | |
 | Charles Davies - Surveying - 1830 - 318 pages
...calculations, the circumference of the 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. 26. As the circumference of a circle may be regarded as a proper measure of angles,... | |
 | G. Rubie - Astronomy - 1830 - 204 pages
...that which divides the Earth or Heavens into two unequal parts. Every Circle, whether great or small, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree is subdivided into 60 equal parts, called minutes or miles; therefore, a Semicircle contains 180 degrees,... | |
 | John Nicholson (Civil engineer) - Building - 1830 - 240 pages
...radii and an arc, as BIK (Fig. 19). 49. The circumference of every circle, whether great or small, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and every degree into 60 parts, called minutes ; and every minute into 60 seconds. To measure the inclination... | |
 | Charles Davies - Surveying - 1830 - 390 pages
...angles that are given. 25. For the purposes of trigonometrical calculations, the circumference of the 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.... | |
 | Hiram Mattison - Astronomy - 1856 - 254 pages
...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 (°), minutes ('), seconds ("). Equilateral?... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1856 - 334 pages
...degrees, the whole circle of the Zodiac.7 75. Every circle, whether the greatest or least possible, is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each degree into 60 equal 1 PLANET, from planao, G. to wander, means a celestial (4) body, which revolvea about the sun or other... | |
 | William Pease - 1856 - 108 pages
...standard of measurement for angles has been obtained. Among English mathematicians, the circumference of a circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; an angle which is formed by two radii will therefore contain a certain number of those parts, and... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1857 - 328 pages
...Sassing through the centre ; and it ivicles the circle into two equal parts called semicircles. 14. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be...called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; and these into thirds, etc. Hence a semicircle contains 180 degrees, and a quadrant... | |
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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 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; and these into thirds, &c. 
