 | Samuel Adams (servant.) - 1826 - 526 pages
...is J3. ,\ Gross is 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,... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1827 - 546 pages
...; the arch AC is 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 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds, &c. And as... | |
 | John Playfair - Geometry - 1829 - 210 pages
...will be the proper measure of the angle BGC. Mathematicians suppose the circumference of every circle to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes, and each minute into £0 equal parts, called seconds, &c. Hence... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 814 pages
...or sometimes the base and perpendicular. Fig. 10. 40. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called DEGREES, and each degree into sixty MIMUTES, each minute into sixty SECOND, and so on. Hence a semicircle contains 180 degrees,... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1829 - 196 pages
...386* TRIGONOMETRY is the art of measuring TRIANGLES. 38T* The PERIPHERY of every cirele is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called DEGREES; and each degree into 60 other equal parts, called minutes, &c. * Tfiuse who would wish to pursue this study, cannot... | |
 | G. Rubie - Astronomy - 1830 - 204 pages
...divides the Earth or Heavens into two unequal parts. Every Circle, whether great or small, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree is subdivided into 60 equal parts, called minutes or miles; therefore, a Semicircle contains 180 degrees,... | |
 | Abel Flint - Surveying - 1830 - 322 pages
...parts, called semicircles ; as AB or DE. Fig. 5. 14. 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... | |
 | William Grier - Mechanical engineering - 1832 - 366 pages
...stands at the angular point is read in (he middle. 57. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; and each degree into 60 minutes, each minute into 60 seconds, and so on. Hence a semicircle contains 180 degrees, and... | |
 | Abel Flint - Geometry - 1835 - 366 pages
...equal parts, calle. .emicircles ; as AB or DE. Fig. 5. 14. The , jmference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minute*; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds; and these... | |
 | Euclid - 1835 - 540 pages
...; the arch AC is 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 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds, &c. A degree... | |
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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, etc. 
