 | John Imison - Art - 1822 - 488 pages
...radii and an arc, as BI K. (Fig. 19.) 38. The circumference of every circle, whether great or small, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and every degree into 60 parts, called minutes ; and every minute into 60 seconds. To measure the inclination... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - Surveying - 1824 - 476 pages
...part of a circle, as ADC. 46. A sector is any part of a circle bounded by an arc and two radii. 47. 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.... | |
 | Abel Flint - Surveying - 1825 - 252 pages
...or DE. Fig. 5. 14. The Circumference of every Circle is sipposed to be divided into 360 equal part?, called Degrees ; and each Degree into 60 equal parts,...called Minutes ; and each Minute into 60 equal parts, called Seconds ; and these into Thirds, &c. JVote. Since all Circles are divided into the same number... | |
 | Samuel Adams (servant.) - 1826 - 526 pages
...is J3. ,\ Gross is 12 Dozen, or 144 A Pace is 3 Feet or a Yard. Mathematicians conceive every Circle to be divided into 360 equal Parts, called Degrees, and each Degree into 60 equal parts, called Seconds, and each Second subdivided into 60 smaller parts, called thirds, and so on. The Diameter of... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1825 - 590 pages
...whether small or great, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, which are called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds, in the same manner as a yard is divided into 3 equal parts called feet, a foot into... | |
 | George G. Carey - Astronomy - 1825 - 274 pages
...All circles, whether great or small, are 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, &c.f 9. An Angle is the inclination of two lines which meet in a point, and is always... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - Nautical astronomy - 1826 - 732 pages
...the figure CAG. NOTE. All circles, whether great or small, are supposed to have their circumference divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and...called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds, and so on into thirds, fourths,* be. and an arch is said to be. of as many degrees... | |
 | Thomas Keith - Navigation - 1826 - 504 pages
...thus the arc ac is the measure of the angle авс and the arc DE is the measure of the angle ABC. (H) The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts called degrees, each degree into 60 equal parts called minutes, each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. The... | |
 | Thomas Keith - Globes - 1826 - 360 pages
...1820, is 14° 13' 7" ; and its declination 88° 20' 55" N. Connoissance des Terns, for 1820, p. 168. t Every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts called degrees ; each minute, into 60 equal parts called seconds, &c. : (a degree therefore is of different lineal... | |
 | James M'Intire - Globes - 1826 - 234 pages
...which the sun describes by his annual progress in the heavens. The ecliptic cuts the equator in an •The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal jjarts, called degrees; each degree into sixty equal parts, called minutes; each minute into sixty... | |
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The circumference of every 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 ; and these into thirds, &c. 
