 | James Thomson - 1827
...circle be divided into 360 equal parts, each of them is called a degree. Each degree is subdivided into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called * Geography is a description of the earth ; and is distinguished by different names, according to tha... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1827 - 513 pages
...meeting BA, BC, in A, C ; the arch AC is called the measure of the angle ABC. II. 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,... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828
...lines, A, C, I,, and B, C, E, divide the circle inUlour equal parts called quadrants. The circumference of every circle, is supposed to be divided into 360...and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds; and these into thirds, &c. Now, as all circles are not of the same magnitude, and as they are all divided... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1828 - 316 pages
...CIRCUMFERENCE. I. For the purposes of trigonometrical calculations, the circumference of the circle is conceived to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees...and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. The semicircumference, or the measure of two right angles, contains 180 degrees; the quarter of the... | |
 | Thomas Kerigan - Nautical astronomy - 1828 - 664 pages
...hemisphere, and the other, the southern hemisphere. — The equator, like all other great circles, is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes } each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds, and so on. The Meridian, of any place on the earth... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers (Secondary) - 1828 - 300 pages
...poor and destitute. • ANGLE, a corner, formed usually by the meeting of two lines. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. A semi-circle, of course, contains li!0 degress, and a quadrant, or quarter of a circle, contains SO... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Geometry - 1829 - 252 pages
...hypothenuse; and the other two sides are called legs. PRACTICAL GEOMETRY. 21 D / -E B *47. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360...each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and so on. 48. The measure of any right-lined angle is an arc of a circle contained between the two lines... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1829
...sides are called the LEGS, or sometimes the base and perpendicular. Fig. 10. 40. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called DEGREES, and each degree into sixty MIMUTES, each minute into sixty SECOND, and so on. Hence a semicircle contains... | |
 | James Hale - Surveying - 1829 - 115 pages
...Supplement of the Arch FA. Fig. 10. 28. The Circumference of every Circle is supposed to be divided into 300 equal parts, called Degrees ; each Degree into 60 equal parts, called Minutes ; and these into Thirds, &,c. 29. The measure of an Angle is the Arch of a Circle contained between two Lines... | |
 | John Playfair - Geometry - 1829 - 186 pages
...Mathematicians suppose the circumference of every circle to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes, and each minute into £0 equal parts, called seconds, &c. Hence a right angle, being measured by a quadrant contains 90... | |
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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. 
