 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 646 pages
...ratified by his son, Meredyd ap Owen, February 24, 141ß. GLOBE, in geometry ; a round, solid body, which may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter. (See Splicre.) Globe, or Artificial Globe, in geography and astronomy, is more particularly used to... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 650 pages
...ratified by his son, Meredyd ap Owen, February 24, 141G. GLOBE, in geometry ; a round, solid body, which may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle alxiut its diameter. (See Sphere.) Ghbe, or Artificial Globe, in geography and astronomy, is more particularly... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1836 - 394 pages
...curved surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about its diameter DE : for the surface - described in this movement, by the curve DAE, will have... | |
 | Edward Shaw - Architecture - 1836 - 438 pages
...-ft ,^ PRACTICAL GEOMETRY. OF A GLOBE. DEFINITIONS. A globe is a solid figure, and may be supposed to be generated by the revolution of a semi-circle about its diameter, which becomes the axis of the globe, and the centre of the semi-circle is the centre of the globe.... | |
 | A. Bell - Conic sections - 1837 - 180 pages
...two thirds of the circumscribing cylinder. SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. DEFINITIONS. 1. A sphere is a solid conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter. 2. The centre of the semicircle is equally distant from every point on the surface of the sphere, and is therefore... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1841 - 288 pages
...curved surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE (fig. 220) about its diameter DE ; Fig. 220. for the surface thus described by the curve DAE will... | |
 | Benjamin Peirce - Geometry - 1841 - 186 pages
...the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. 416. Corollary. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle, DAE (fig. 177) about its diameter DE. 417. Definitions. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1842 - 744 pages
...0SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. A sphere or globe is a solid having one continued curved surface, and which is conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter : balloons and cricket-balls are spheres. Spherical geometry consists in the investigation of the properties... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Conic sections - 1845 - 244 pages
...surface, all the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. G The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about its diameter DE; for the surface described in this movement, by the curve DAE, will have... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - 1845 - 894 pages
...axis, one at each extremity ; or the axis may terminate in a conical vertice at each extremity. G H The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about its diameter DE : for the surface described in this movement, by the curve DAE, will have... | |
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