 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.  An Elementary Geometry and Trigonometry - Page 11by William Frothingham Bradbury - 1873 - 238 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Vermilye Huntington, Louis Albert Fischer - Engineering - 1916 - 196 pages
...(360 degrees = 1 revolution.) 1 degree = 1° = Ую of a right angle. The degree is usually divided into 60 equal parts called minutes ('), and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds ("); while the second is subdivided decimally. But for many purposes it is more convenient to divide... | |
 | Architecture - 1917 - 550 pages
...ie, it is -^ =£ of a circumference. Li order to obtain accurate measurements each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. r:~ S7_ Angular Measurement /OS /so 39 SOLIDS A solid has three dimensions — length, breadth, and... | |
 | John William Norie, J. W. Saul - Nautical astronomy - 1917 - 642 pages
...hourangle, and QC is the easterly hour-angle of the star S'. PREPARATORY PROBLEMS LONGITUDE AND TIME The circumference of every circle is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; now the earth, whose circumference as a sphere is 360°, turns on its axis in the direction of this... | |
 | Heating - 1918 - 406 pages
...ie, it is vVr = | of a circumference. In order to obtain accurate measurements each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. Fig.. 67. Angular Measurement SOLIDS A solid has three dimensions — length, breadth, and thickness.... | |
 | Building - 1919 - 502 pages
...it is -sVir = i of a circumference. In order to obtain accurate measurements each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. Fig. 67. Angular Measurement SOLIDS A solid has three dimensions — length, breadth, and thickness.... | |
 | Harmon Bay Niver - Geography - 1922 - 376 pages
...matter what size it may be, is divided into 360 equal parts called degrees. Each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. The Equator and the meridian circles are called great circles, because they divide the earth into hemispheres.... | |
 | Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams - Education - 1922 - 922 pages
...into 60 equal parts, thus producing the sexagesimal scale. (See NOTATION.) Thus the circumference of a circle is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; each degree into 00 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. Further divisions... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - Nautical astronomy - 1931 - 866 pages
...supposed to have their circumferences divided into 360 equal parts, cal.ed degrees; each degree is divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds; an arc is measured by the number of degrees, minutes, and seconds that it contains. A sphere is a solid... | |
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