| Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1775 - 534 pages
...meafure of the angle ABC. II. The circumference of a circle is fuppofed to be divided into H h ' 360 360 equal parts called degrees, and each degree into...60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 6e equal parts called feconds, &c. And as many degrees, minutes, feconds, &c as are contained in any... | |
| Euclid - 1781 - 552 pages
...co-fucant of the angle rtionai between the tan.ngles HKB, ABC will \.E arc right ; therefore rill• 360 equal parts called degrees, and each degree into...called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called feconds, &c- And as many degrees, minutes, feconds, &c. as are contained in any arch, of fo... | |
| John Hamilton Moore - Nautical astronomy - 1791 - 578 pages
...Degree is the ßooth Part of the Circumference of any Circle. All Circles, whether great or fmall, are divided into 360 equal Parts, called Degrees ; and...called Minutes ; and each Minute into 60 equal Parts called Seconds, &c. A Semicircle is 180 Degrees, and a Quadrant contains 90 Degrees. A Right Angle... | |
| John McGregor (teacher of mathematics.) - Mathematics - 1792 - 532 pages
...It is divided into right-angled and oblique-angled trigonometry. The circumference of any circle, is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and...called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts, called féconds, and fo on. JVi/f, Degrees are frequently marked °, and minutes '. Thus, 30 degrees,... | |
| Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1795 - 384 pages
...; and is double the Radius, as AB cr DE. Fig. 8. 1 8. The Circumference of every Circle is fuppofed to be Divided into 360 equal Parts called Degrees,...called Minutes, and each Minute into 60 equal Parts called Seconds, and thefe into Thirds, Fourths, &c. thefe Parts being greater or lefs as the Radius... | |
| William Taylor (teacher of the mathematics.) - Arithmetic - 1800 - 556 pages
...called the Radius. 8. The circumference of every circle is divided into 360 equal parts called Degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called Minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called Seconds, &c. Any part of the the circumference is called an Arch. 9. The Chord of an arch, is... | |
| Thomas Simpson - Algebra - 1800 - 448 pages
...fuppofed divided into fome affigned number of equal parts. 2. The periphery of every circle is fuppofed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 cgual parts, called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts, called feconds, or fccond minutes,... | |
| Mathematics - 1801 - 446 pages
...on the two sides, that, which stands at the angular point, is rend in the middle. C 56. The 39° 5 6. The circumference of every circle is supposed to...equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 minutes, each minute into do seconds, and so on. Hence a semicircle contains 1 80 degrees, and a quadrant... | |
| Abel Flint - Surveying - 1804 - 226 pages
...the Centre ; and it divides the Circle into two equal parts, called Semicircles ; as AB or DE. 14. The. Circumference of every Circle is supposed to...called Minutes ; and each Minute into 60 equal parts, called Seconds ; jktl these into Thirds, &c. Ifote. .-Since all Circles are divided into the same number... | |
| Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1804 - 530 pages
...; the arch AC is called the meafure of the angle ABC. II. The circumference of a circle is fuppofed to be divided into 360 equal parts called degrees,...called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called feconds, &c. And as many degrees, minutes, feconds, &c. as are contained in any arch, of fo... | |
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