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" CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre; as the figure ADB E. "
Elements of Geometry - Page 157
by Adrien Marie Legendre - 1841 - 235 pages
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Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry

Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1836 - 394 pages
...CIRCLE, AND THE MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES. Definitions. 1. The circumference of a circle is a curved line, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The circle is the space terminated by this curved line.* 2. Every straight line, CA, CE, CD, drawn from...
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A complete, scientific, and popular treatise upon perspective, with the ...

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...
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An Elementary Treatise on Plane and Solid Geometry

Benjamin Peirce - Geometry - 1837 - 216 pages
...their homologous sides. Radii and Section of a Sphere. CHAPTER XVIII. THE SPHERE. 415. Definition. A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface,...equally distant from a point within called the centre. 41G. Corollary. The sphere may be conceived to be generated l,y the revolution of a semicircle, DAE...
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Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry

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 from...
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The National Arithmetic, on the Inductive System: Combining the Analytic and ...

Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1839 - 356 pages
...base. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, which remains fixed. A hemisphere is half...
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First Lessons in Geometry: With Practical Applications in Mensuration, and ...

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...
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The National Arithmetic ...: Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods ...

Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1841 - 334 pages
...base. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued conveX surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, which remains fiXed. A hemisphere is half...
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A New System of Arithmetic, on the Cancelling Plan: Embracing the Rules of ...

Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1841 - 324 pages
...base. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, which remains fixed. A hemisphere is half...
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A Practical System of Mensuration of Superficies and Solids ...

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...
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Lessons in Geography and Astronomy on the Globes: Supplementary to the ...

A. Fleming - Astonomy - 1844 - 122 pages
...4. A Sphere is a solid figure, whose circumscribing surface, throughout its whole extent, is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived as generated by the revolution of a circle round one of its diameters as the axis of revolution. Are...
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