 | Commissioners of National Education in Ireland - Measurement - 1837 - 290 pages
...circumference pf every circle is generally divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and every 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 contained in the arcs which subtend them ; thus, if... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Astronomy - 1838 - 268 pages
...LONGITUDE. Definitions. All circles surrounding the earth are divided into 360 equal parts called degrees ; each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 parts called seconds. The signs by which these are indicated are 360° degrees, 60' minutes, and 30"... | |
 | Thomas Kerigan - Nautical astronomy - 1838 - 804 pages
...circles of the spheres, is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree is divided into GO equal parts, called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. ,57 The Meridian of any place on the earth, is a semicircle which passes through that place, cuts the... | |
 | Euclides - 1838 - 264 pages
...subtended by one of these, as the angular unit. Each degree is moreover supposed to be subdivided into 00 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds, and so on. The angle subtended by any number of these will, therefore, be some fractional part of the... | |
 | Charles Davies - Surveying - 1839 - 376 pages
...calculations, the circumference of the circle is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. PLANE TRIGONOMETRY. V As the circumference of a circle may be regarded as a proper measure of angles,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Surveying - 1839 - 376 pages
...calculations, the circumference of the circle is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. PLANE TRIGONOMETRY \ As the circumference of a circle may be regarded as a proper measure of angles,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometrical drawing - 1840 - 264 pages
...for the measurement of angles. For this purpose it is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called...and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. The degrees, minutes, and seconds, are marked thus, °, ', " ; and 9° 18' 10", are read, 9 degrees,... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - Algebra - 1840 - 182 pages
...the radius by 3-1415927. * The right angle is divided into 90 equal parts called degrees, each degree into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. Thus, 2° 15' 40" means 2 degrees, 15 minutes, and 40 seconds. To find the area of a sector, very nearly,... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - Algebra - 1840 - 186 pages
...the radius by 3-1415927. - The right angle is divided into 90 equal parts called degrea, each degree into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seccnde. Thus, 2° 15' 40" means 2 degrees, 15 minutes, and 40 seconds. To find the area of a sector,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Edmands - Geography - 1841 - 88 pages
...the Antarctic Circle. See fig. 2. A DEGREE is the 360th part of a circle, and contains CPJ English miles ; each degree is divided into 60 equal parts,...and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. They are marked (°) degrees, (') minutes, (") seconds. The LONGITUDE of a place, is its distance from... | |
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Every circumference of a. circle, whether the circle be large or small, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts called degrees. Each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds. 
