 | Complete, scientific and popular treatise - 1836 - 230 pages
...the revolution of a right angled triangle, having for its base a circle. A sphere is a solid, bounded by a curved surface, all the points of which are equally distant from an interior point called a centre. PLATE II. PRACTICAL GEOMETRY. TO DIVIDE A STRAIGHT LINE INTO TWO... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1838 - 382 pages
...THE MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES. Definitions. 1. The circumference of a circle is a curved line, all die points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The circle is Ihe space terminated by this curved line.* 2. Every straight line, CA, CE, CD, drawn... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometrical drawing - 1840 - 262 pages
...a cylinder and cone have equal bases and altitudes, the cone will be one-third of the cylinder. 11. A Sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface...all the points of which are equally distant from a certain point called the centre. 12. The sphere may be described by revolving a semicircle ABD about... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1841 - 288 pages
...sides, or diagonals of the polyedrons, we shall have SECTION THIRD. Of the Sphere. DEFINITIONS. 437. A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface,...equally distant from a point within called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE (fig. 220) about... | |
 | J. M. Scribner - Measurement - 1844 - 130 pages
...right cone is the distance between the peripheries of the two ends, measured upon the surface. 10. A Sphere is a solid, terminated by a curved surface,...distant from a point •within, called the centre. A sphere may be described by the revolution of a semi-circle about a diameter. 11. A radius of a sphere... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Conic sections - 1845 - 542 pages
...SPHERICAL. GEOMETRY. SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. DEFINITIONS. 1. THE sphere is a solid terminated by a curve surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. G The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about its diameter... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - 1845 - 894 pages
...SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. DEFINITIONS. 1. THE sphere is a solid terminated by a curve surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about its diameter... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Geometry - 1845 - 506 pages
...SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. DEFINITIONS. 1 . THE sphere is a solid terminated by a curve surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about its diameter... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometrical drawing - 1846 - 254 pages
...contain, there being 231 cubic inches in a gallon ? Ans. 79.0613. OF THE SPHERE. 43. What is a sphere ? A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface,...all the points of which are equally distant from a certain point within called the centre. 44. How may a sphere be described ? The sphere may be described... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 362 pages
...diameter by 3.14159. (Leg. 11. 5. Sch.) Note. — The circumference of a circle is a curve line, al1 the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The diameter of a circle is a straight line which passes through the centre, and is terminated on both... | |
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A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. 
