 | Bewick Bridge - Algebra - 1821 - 644 pages
...For the purpose of exhibiting arithmetically the magnitude of angles, the whole circumference of the circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts,...degrees; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes; each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds; &c. &c. And since arcs are the measures of angles,... | |
 | Thomas Simpson - Algebra - 1821 - 426 pages
...right lines, in and about the circle, be supposed divided into some assigned number of equal parts. 2. The periphery 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... | |
 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1821 - 592 pages
...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 00 equal parts called seconds, and- these into thirds, fourths, &c. these parts being greater or less... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit, W. Little - Measurement - 1822 - 916 pages
...ADC. " *fi. A sector is any part of a circle bounded by an arc sad two radii. 47. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360...each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds, &c. 48. The arc of a quadrant contains 90 degrees, which is the measure of a right angle. 49. An ellipse... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Atlases - 1822 - 354 pages
...colurvs. equal parts. These are four, the two tropics, and (he two polar circles. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360...equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 00 equal parts, called seconds. They are marked thus, 23° 28' 16" ; i- e. 33 degrees, 28 minute!",... | |
 | Rev. John Allen - Astronomy - 1822 - 508 pages
...called acute.* * Mathematicians have supposed the whole circumference of a circle to be divided in 360 equal parts, called degrees, each degree into...and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds, Stc. and a circle being described from the vertex of an angle, as a centre, an angle is said to be... | |
 | Rev. John Allen - Astronomy - 1822 - 518 pages
...tailed acute.* * Mathematicians have supposed the whole circumference of a circle to be divided in 360 equal parts, called degrees, each degree into...called minutes and each minute into 60 equal parts, cal:ed seconds, &c. and a circle being described iron) the vertex of an angle, as a centre, an angle... | |
 | Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 710 pages
...straight line drawn through the centre from one side of the circumference to the other. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 minutes ; each minute into GO seconds. An arc of a circle is part of its circumference. All angles... | |
 | Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 706 pages
...straight line drawn through the centre from one side of the circumference to the other. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 minutes ; each minute into 60 seconds. An arc of a circle is part of its circumference. All angles... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 308 pages
...and in more modern times, Napier, the inventor of logarithms, and Briggs. In plane trigonometry, the circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; every degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; every minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds... | |
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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. 
