 | John Lee Comstock - Physics - 1813 - 448 pages
...star a. 762. Each of the 12 signs of the zodiac is divided into 30 smaller parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes, and each minute into 60 parts, called seconds. The division of the zodiac into signs, is of very ancient date, each sign having... | |
 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1814 - 558 pages
...isdoublethe radius, as AB or DE. fig. 8. 16. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts called degrees, and each degree into...minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds, and tiiese into thirds, fourths, &c. these parts being greater or less as the radius is.17.... | |
 | Abner Alden - English language - 1814 - 222 pages
...the earth to be circumscribed by a .certain number of circles ; and each circle to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree...minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. Q. What is a great circle ? A. A great circle is one, whose plane is supposed to pas through... | |
 | Euclides - 1814 - 560 pages
...of the angle ABC. II. The circumference of a circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal part* called degrees, and each degree into 60 equal parts...minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds, &c. And as many degrees, minutes, seconds, &c. as are contained in any arch, of so many degrees,... | |
 | Charles Butler - Mathematics - 1814 - 528 pages
...angle. It is usual to divide the whole circumference into 360 equal parts called degrees, to subdivide each degree into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds, &c. wherefore, if an angle at the centre be subtended by an arc which consists of suppose... | |
 | Surveying - 1814 - 402 pages
...both segments of the circle, as DFE and DGE. 12. A Circle is actually, or supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called Degrees, and each degree into 60 equal parts, called Minutes ; and these into seconds, &c. 13. An Angle is so many degrees, as lines drawn from the centre of a circle,... | |
 | Euclides - 1816 - 588 pages
...called the measure of the angle ABC. II. The circumference of a circle is supposed to be divided fnto 360 equal parts called degrees, and each degree into...minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds, &c. And as many degrees, minutes, seconds, &c. as are contained in any arc h, of so many degrees,... | |
 | Nathaniel Dwight - Geography - 1816 - 220 pages
...A. 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 seconds. Q. What is a meridian ? A. It is a great circle cutting the equator at right angle's', and... | |
 | John Gummere - Surveying - 1817 - 384 pages
...determined. 2. The periphery 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, See. I 3. The measure of- an angle is the arc of a circle, contained between the two lines... | |
 | Thomas Keith - 1817 - 306 pages
...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. The angles are measured by the number of degrees cut off from the circle, by the lines which... | |
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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. 
