 | Jedidiah Morse, Sidney Edwards Morse - Geography - 1826 - 350 pages
...globe into two unequal parts. The two tropics and the two polar circles are less circles. Every circle is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree is divided into 60 minutes ; and each minute into 60 seconds. They are marked thus 32° 14' 26" ; that is, 32 degrees,... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - Nautical astronomy - 1826 - 732 pages
...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, fourths,* be. and an arch is said to be. of as many degrees as it contains parts... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - Nautical astronomy - 1826 - 764 pages
...small, are supposed to have th cumference divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each deçr 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts. seconds, and so on into thirds, fourths,* be. and an arch is said to bi many degrees as it contains... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1827 - 546 pages
...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, minutes, seconds, &c. as are contained in any arch, of so many degrees, minutes,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1827 - 1012 pages
...circle be divided into 360 equal parts, each of them is called a degree. Each degree is subdivided into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called * Geography is a description of the earth ; and is distinguished by different names, according to tha... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1828 - 346 pages
...circumference of the circle is conceived 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. The semicircumference, or the measure of two right angles, contains 180 degrees; the quarter of the circumference,... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...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; and these into thirds, &c. Now, as all circles are not of the same magnitude, and as they are all divided... | |
 | Charles Davies - Surveying - 1830 - 318 pages
...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, having their vertices... | |
 | Joseph Allen - America - 1832 - 128 pages
...globe, is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each degree contains about 09 A miles. Each degree is divided into 60 equal parts, called...and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. Questions for Review. How many degrees are there in the circumference of the earth ? How many miles... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1834 - 300 pages
...GEOGRAPHICAL MEASURE. The circumference of the globe — like every other circle — is divided in 360 equal parts, called degrees. Each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called miles, or minutes. Three miles are called a league. On the equator, 69^ statute miles are equal to... | |
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Each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. 
