 | Charles Davies - Surveying - 1830 - 390 pages
...angles that are given. 25. For the purposes of trigonometrical calculations, the circumference of the circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds.... | |
 | Ira Wanzer - Arithmetic - 1831 - 408 pages
...or 360 degrces,= {he ^. Note 1. — This table is used by Astronomers, Navigators, &c. Note 2. — 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 seconds, and each second into... | |
 | George Crabb - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 426 pages
...centre to the circumference; the segment of a circle is a part cut ofl' by a line called the chord. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, every degree into 60 parts, called minutes, and every minute into 60 parts, called seconds. Solids... | |
 | William Grier - Mechanical engineering - 1832 - 366 pages
...the other two on the two sides, D that which stands at the angular point is read in (he middle. 57. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be...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 a quadrant... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1832 - 182 pages
...in Vermont, contains 38 quarts, or 2552.6 cubic inches. * Every circle, without regard to its size, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and these again to be subdivided into minutes and seconds; so that the absolute quantity expressed by any... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1832 - 186 pages
...in Vermont, contains 38 quarts, or 2553.6 cubic inches. * Every circle, without regard to its size, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and these again to be subdivided into minutes and seconds; so that the absolute quantity expressed by any... | |
 | Abel Flint - Geometry - 1835 - 366 pages
...Tivides the circle into two equal parts, calle. .emicircles ; as AB or DE. Fig. 5. 14. The , jmference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360...degrees ; and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minute*; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds; and these into thirds, &c. NOTE. Since... | |
 | Thomas Spofford - Almanacs, American - 1835 - 84 pages
...every part of the circumference ia equally distant from a point within the circle, called the centre. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be 'divided into 360 equal parts called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parls called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds.... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 630 pages
...poles. The brazen meridian is the circle in which the artificial globe turns, divided into 360 degrees. Every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, each degree into CO equal ports, called minutes, each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds, Sic.... | |
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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 Minutes, each minute into 60 Seconds, and so on. 
