 | William Grier - Mechanical engineering - 1836 - 384 pages
...stands at the angular point is read in the middle. Thus DAE. 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... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1837 - 266 pages
...1 quarter, qr. 282 cubic inches 1 ga\\on,galA quarters, 1 chaldron,c/(. XIV. Circular Measure* * " Every circle, without regard to its size, is supposed...reckoned latitude, longitude, the planetary motions," &c, Thompson. 60 seconds, 60 minutes, 30 degrees, 12 signs, or " make 360° 1 minute, ' 1 degree,0 1 sign,... | |
 | Hugh Murray - Commercial geography - 1837 - 612 pages
...and consequently nearly 24,870 miles in circumference. In geometry, the circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each of these into 60 equal parts, called minutes, and so on. A degree, therefore, of any circle on... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1839 - 356 pages
...lines B, A and A, D is called the angle B, A, D, or D, A, B. 56. 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... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1841 - 334 pages
...lines B, A and A, D is called the angle B, A, D, or D, A, B. 56. 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 u semicircle contains 130... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1841 - 324 pages
...divides the circle into two equal parts, called semi-circles. 14. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; and each degree into 0O equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds;... | |
 | Joseph Gwilt - Architects - 1842 - 1114 pages
...relations which connect it with geodisic operations. 1 034. We have already observed that every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and that each degree is subdivided into 60 minutes, these minutes each into 6O seconds, and so on. Hence... | |
 | William Grier - Mechanical engineering - 1842 - 320 pages
...stands at the angular point is read in the middle. Thus, DAE. 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... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...centre and turning the other round to trace out the circumference. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees and marked ° ; and each degree into 60 mi nutes, marked'. The word Circle is also used to describe an... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Conic sections - 1845 - 542 pages
...may be regarded as the measure of angular magnitude. For this purpose the circumference of the circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each of those degrees is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal... | |
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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. 
