 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1842 - 320 pages
...degrees, the whole circle of the Zodiac.7 75. Every circle, whether the greatest or least possible, is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each degree into 60 equal 1 PLANET, from planao, G. to wander, means a celestial (4) body, which revolves about the sun or other... | |
 | William Grier - Mechanical engineering - 1842 - 320 pages
...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 180 degrees, and a quadrant... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1843 - 320 pages
...degrees, the whole circle of the Zodiac.' 75. Every circle, whether the greatest or least possible, is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each degree into 60 equal 2 LATITUDE, from latus, L. side, means the distance North or South of the equator; (5) breadth; room;... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Classical geography - 1844 - 362 pages
...circles. 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. " They are marked thus, 23° 28' 16"; ie 83 degrees, 23 minutes, and 16 seconds. The Equator is an... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Classical geography - 1844 - 356 pages
...equator. 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 secotuls. They are marked thus, 23° 88' 16"; ie 23 degrees, 28 minutes, and 16 seconds. The Less Circles... | |
 | William Phillips - Mineralogy - 1844 - 832 pages
...which they consist. In measuring angles, the circle is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 seconds : the divisions being thus designated : 360°, 60', GO". If one fourth part of the circle,... | |
 | Ezra Otis Kendall - Astronomy - 1845 - 404 pages
...circumference of that circle. Every circle is considered as divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ;...and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. They are marked 0 ' " — thus: 10° 2' 20" — which is read ten degrees, two minutes, and twenty... | |
 | James B. Dodd - Arithmetic - 1852 - 410 pages
...304. The Circumference of every 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. Degrees, minutes, and seconds, are denoted thus 25° 30' 45", 25 deg. 30 min. 45 sec. § 395. An Angle... | |
 | Modern geography - 1852 - 176 pages
...circle, whether great or small, is divided into 360 equal parts called degrees; each degree is subdivided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds: these are marked by the characters, * ', ": thus 33° 52' 28" means 33 degrees 52 minutes and 28 seconds.... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1852 - 436 pages
...supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree is supposed to be divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. Degrees, minutes, and seconds, are designated respectively, by the characters ° ' ". For example,... | |
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The 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. 
