| Mathematics - 1801 - 446 pages
...which stands at the angular point, is rend in the middle. C 56. The 39° 5 6. 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 do seconds, and so on. Hence a semicircle contains... | |
| Tiberius Cavallo - Aeronautics - 1803 - 490 pages
...circle ; but for the conveniency of expreffing this part, the whole circle is divided, or is fuppofed to be divided, into 360 equal parts called degrees* each degree is fubdivided into 60 equal parts called minutes, each minute is divided into 60 eqiial parts ca.\\zAfeconds... | |
| Abel Flint - Surveying - 1804 - 226 pages
...divides the Circle into two equal parts, called Semicircles ; as AB or DE. 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... | |
| John Bonnycastle - Trigonometry - 1806 - 464 pages
...by an arc of a circle contained between its two legs, and having the angular point for its centre. 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 equal parts, called seconds ; &c. So that... | |
| Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1806 - 486 pages
...parts called semicircles ; and is double the radius, as AB or DE. fig. 8. • 18. 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,... | |
| Andrew Mackay - Latitude - 1809 - 412 pages
...celestial Equator or EQUINOCTIAL. The Equator as well as all other great circles of the sphere, is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ;* each degree is divided into 6O equal parts, called minutes; and the sexagesimal division is continued. The MERIDIAN of any place,... | |
| Thomas Keith - Navigation - 1810 - 478 pages
...the measure of the angle aBC and the arc DE is the measure of the angle ABC. (H) 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 equal parts called seconds. The angles are... | |
| Thomas Simpson - Trigonometry - 1810 - 168 pages
...about the circle be supposed divided into some assigned number of equal parts. 2. The periphery 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... | |
| Euclid - Geometry - 1810 - 554 pages
...meeting BA, BC in A, C; 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,... | |
| Thomas Keith - Astronomy - 1811 - 388 pages
...ascention, for the beginning of the year 1804, was 13° 14' 43" and its declination 80° "15' 44" north. $ 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 equal parts called seconds, &c. ; a degree... | |
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