 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1804 - 530 pages
...II. The circumference of a circle is fuppofed 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 feconds, &c. And as many degrees, minutes, feconds, &c. as are contained in any... | |
 | Abel Flint - Surveying - 1804 - 226 pages
...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 ; jktl these into Thirds, &c. Ifote. .-Since all Circles are divided into... | |
 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1806 - 486 pages
...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, fourths, &c. these parts being greater or less as... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1806 - 546 pages
...n. The circumference of a circle is supposed to be divided info 360 equal parts called degrees, and each degree into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds, i: >.. And as many degrees, minutes, seconds, &c. as are contained in any... | |
 | John Hamilton Moore - Nautical astronomy - 1807 - 586 pages
...actually, or fuppofed to have, their circumference divided 11110360 equal parts, called degrees, and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts, called féconds, and fu on into thirds, fourths, &c. All angles are msafurcd by an arch... | |
 | Abel Flint - Surveying - 1808 - 190 pages
...Circumference of every Circle is supposcfl 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, 8tc. Note. Since all Circles are divided into... | |
 | Astronomy - 1808 - 290 pages
...This circle we suppose to be divided into 12 equal parts, called Signs ; each sign . into 30 equal parts, called Degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts called Minutes ; and every minute into 60 equal parts, called Seconds; so that a second is the 60th part of a minute ; a... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1809 - 574 pages
...tic. This circle we suppose to be divided into 12 equal parts, called signs ; each sign into 30 equal parts, called degrees; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 into 60 equal parts, called seconds : so that a second Plate I. is the 60th part of a minute ; a minute... | |
 | John Ewing - Astronomy - 1809 - 672 pages
...another. Every circle, whether large or small, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, which are called degrees, each degree into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds, and so on in a sixagesimal division as far as you please. If the earth be supposed to turn... | |
 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1811 - 580 pages
...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 caled seconds, and these into thirds, fourths, &c. these parts being greater or less as... | |
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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, fourths, &c. 
