 | Thomas Holliday - Surveying - 1838 - 404 pages
...lines which form it, but in their opening or inclination to each other. 2. 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 again into 60 equal parts, called... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1838 - 292 pages
...estimating latitude and longitude, and also in measuring the motions of the heavenly bodies. Every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. TABLE. 60 seconds " make 1 minute, marked '. 60 minutes - - 1 degree, - - °. * 30 degrees - - 1 sign,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing (of Edinburgh.) - 1839 - 348 pages
...the globe. A small circle divides the globe into two unequal parts. (6) Every circle, great or small, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; every degree is subdivided into 60 equal parts, ralled minutes ; every minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds... | |
 | Thomas Keith - 1839 - 498 pages
...measure of the angle aBc, and the arc DE is the measure of the angle ABC. (56) 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... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1839 - 356 pages
...by the lines B, A and A, D is called the angle B, A, D, or D, A, B. 56. 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. Hence a semicircle contains... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1841 - 324 pages
...and it divides the circle into two equal parts, called semi-circles. 14. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; and each degree into 0O equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds;... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1841 - 334 pages
...by the lines B, A and A, D is called the angle B, A, D, or D, A, B. 56. 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. Hence u semicircle contains... | |
 | Joseph Gwilt - Architects - 1842 - 1114 pages
...abstract relations which connect it with geodisic operations. 1 034. We have already observed that every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and that each degree is subdivided into 60 minutes, these minutes each into 6O seconds, and so on.... | |
 | William Grier - Mechanical engineering - 1842 - 320 pages
...which stands at the angular point is read in the middle. Thus, DAE. 57. 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. Hence a semicircle contains... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...in the centre and turning the other round to trace out the circumference. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees and marked ° ; and each degree into 60 mi nutes, marked'. The word Circle is also used to describe... | |
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