 | Anthony Nesbit - Surveying - 1824 - 476 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. 48. The arc of a quadrant contains 90 degrees, which is the measure of a right angle. 49.... | |
 | 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,...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 ot Degrees,... | |
 | 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 some... | |
 | 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 12 equal... | |
 | Samuel Adams (servant.) - 1826 - 526 pages
...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - Nautical astronomy - 1826 - 732 pages
...CAG. NOTE. All circles, whether great or small, are supposed to have their circumference divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each degree into...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 as it contains... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - Nautical astronomy - 1826 - 764 pages
...small, are supposed to have th cumference divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each deçr 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts. seconds, and so on into thirds, fourths,* be. and an arch is said to bi many degrees as it contains... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1827 - 546 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1827 - 1012 pages
...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... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 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; and these into thirds, &c. Now, as all circles are not of the same magnitude, and as they... | |
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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. 
