 | Philip Ronayne - Algebra - 1717 - 478 pages
...PARTI. .•;.-. . ... Of TRIGONOMETRf. f * r*" . У ;: "> •" ^ Definitions. ï; Д Circle is fuppofed to be ^* divided into 360 equal Parts, called Degrees, and each Degree into 60 equab Pans>calledMinutes,?md each Minute into 60 eqpal Parts1 called Seconds , ÖV. Any Partien -of... | |
 | Edmund Stone - Compasses (Mathematical instruments) - 1721 - 60 pages
...greateft Semitangent, or that of 1 80 Degrees, is infinite. The Circumference of every Circle is fuppofed to be divided into 360 equal Parts, called Degrees ; and each Degree in 60 equal Parts, called Minutes, &c. This Number was chofen by Geometricians for the Diviiion of... | |
 | Archibald Patoun - Navigation - 1734 - 414 pages
...into two equal Parts, and is double the Radius. 1 6. The Circumference of every Circle is fuppofed to be divided into 360 equal Parts, called Degrees ; and each Degree is divided into 60 equal Parts, called Minutes ; and each Minute into 60 e?ual Parts, called Seconds;... | |
 | Edmund Stone - Mathematical instruments - 1746 - 62 pages
...greatefi Semitangent, or that of 180 Degrees, is infinite. The Circumference of every Circle is fuppofed to be divided into 360 equal Parts, called Degrees...and. each Degree into 60 equal Parts, called Minutes, &V. This Number was chofen by Geometricians for the Divifion of a Circle^ becaufe it may be divided... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1775 - 520 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... | |
 | Thomas Simpson - Algebra - 1800 - 400 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 - 426 pages
...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 be...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... | |
 | David Steel - 1805 - 390 pages
...centre to the circumference of a circle, is called a Radius. All the radii of the same circle are equal. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 parts, called degrees; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutei; and each minute into 60 equal... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Trigonometry - 1806 - 464 pages
...by an arc of a circle contained between its two legs, and having the angular point for its centre. 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... | |
 | Benjamin Workman - Geography - 1809 - 220 pages
...unequally. LeflVr circles are coai* monly parallel to fome great circle7. Every circle is fuppofed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called Degrees...and each degree into 60 equal parts, called Minutes ; each minute in 60 Seconds, £c. 8. A degree of a great circle, on the earth, contains 60 geographical... | |
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