| John Dougall - 1810 - 684 pages
...other four watches. In modern Europe the day is divided into 2* equal parts called hours, each hour into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. It has been found by experiment at London, in a spot elevated 113 feet above the level of the sea,... | |
| Thomas Keith - Navigation - 1810 - 478 pages
...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 angles are measured by the number of "egrees cut... | |
| Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1811 - 580 pages
...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 caled seconds, and these into thirds, fourths, &c. these parts being greater or less as the radius... | |
| Francis Nichols - Plane trigonometry - 1811 - 162 pages
...subtending the same angle ABC. 5. COR. 4. Hence, if a circle of any radius whatever be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes; each minute into 6O equal parts, called seconds, &c., the number of degrees, minutes, and seconds,... | |
| Thomas Keith - Astronomy - 1811 - 388 pages
...14' 43" and its declination 80° "15' 44" north. $ 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, &c. ; a degree is, therefore, only a relative idea,... | |
| Caleb Alexander - Arithmetic - 1813 - 152 pages
...circumference of every circle, is supposed tobe divided into 360 equal parts, called degree»; and each degree, into 60 equal parts, called minutes;...each minute, into 60 equal parts, called seconds, and these into thirds, fourtUs, &c. 14. Parallel lines are equidistant from each other. 15 A figure,... | |
| John Lee Comstock - Physics - 1813 - 448 pages
...constellation, and near trfB 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... | |
| 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 30 degrees, that... | |
| Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1814 - 558 pages
...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 tiiese into thirds, fourths, &c. these parts being greater or less as the radius is.17. A chord... | |
| Abner Alden - English language - 1814 - 222 pages
....certain number of circles ; and each circle 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. Q. What is a great circle ? A. A great circle is one, whose plane is supposed to pas through the centre... | |
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