 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 878 pages
...fixed upon : and hence the French, in their measures of the circle, divide it into 400 equal parts or degrees ; each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. The reason why the number 360 appears to have been selected is, that this number may be divided into... | |
 | Marco Polo, Sir Henry Yule, Henri Cordier - Travel - 1993 - 788 pages
...I will mention one thing which is quite decisive as to the Jesuits. The cirile is divided into 365$ degrees, each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. The Jesuits always ased the sexagesimal division. Lecomte speaks of the imperfection of the division... | |
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The decestere is the tenth of a stere. The quadrant of the circle generally is divided like the fourth part of the meridian, into 100 degrees, each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds, &c. so that the same number, which expresses... 
