 | Adriano Balbi - 1835 - 578 σελίδες
...fyc. The geographical measure of distance is a degree or 360th part of a great circle of the earth; the degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds. Circles passing round the earth parallel to the equator at given distances from each other, whether... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1841 - 516 σελίδες
...fyc. The geographical measure of distance is a degree or 360th part of a great circle of the earth ; the degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds. Circles passing round the earth parallel to the equator at given distances from each other, whether... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 1016 σελίδες
...fyc. The geographical measure of distance is a degree or 3GOth part of a gieat circle of the earth ; the degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds. Circles passing round the earth parallel to the equator at given distances from each other, whether... | |
 | George Heppel - 1864 - 234 σελίδες
...length of the circumference of any circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts. Each of these is called a degree, the degree is divided into 60 minutes, and the minute into 60 seconds. The abbreviations for these three words are ° - ", so that 5 degrees 27 minutes 34 seconds is written... | |
 | Stoddard A. Felter - 1864 - 412 σελίδες
...minutes, and the min-. ute into 60 seconds. The length of a deO gree, minute, or second, depends on th« size of the circle. If the size of the circle is increased or decreased.. the length oi the degree, minute, or second, is also increased or decreased. 3. The greatest circumference of... | |
 | Stoddard A. Felter - 1864 - 430 σελίδες
...2, If any circumference, whether largf or small, be divided into 300 equal arcs, each arc is cjilled a degree. The degree is divided into 60 minutes, and the minute into tJO seconds. The length of a degree, minute, or second, depends on the size of the circle. If the size... | |
 | Stoddard A. Felter - 1866 - 338 σελίδες
...circumference is called an arc. 2. If any circumference, whether large О or small, be divided into 360 equal arcs, each arc is called a degree. The degree...the circle. If the size of the circle is increased ov decreased, the length of the degree, minute, or second is also increased or decreased. 3. The greatest... | |
 | Stoddard A. Felter - 1868 - 360 σελίδες
...distance around it is called its circumference. Any part of the circumference is called an arc. 2. If any circumference, whether large or small, be divided...minute, or second is also increased or decreased. 8. The greatest circumference of the eurtfagp surface is about 24,930 miles ; 1* of that circumference... | |
 | 1885 - 630 σελίδες
...Principal she, means guoií cate- ; reu, her provision only (degree; (Ar. **/.) to the good (imiir The degree is divided into 60 minutes, and the minute into 60 seconds. Fiord, in Lapland, and the most southerly is Cape Apsheron, the eastern extremity of the Caucasus,... | |
 | Bennett Hooper Brough - 1888 - 366 σελίδες
...Angular Measures. — The circumference of a circle is divided into 360 parts; each part being termed a "degree." The degree is divided into 60 minutes, and the minute into 60 seconds. This is known as the sexagesimal division. The French centesimal division of the quadrant into 100... | |
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О or small, be divided into 360 equal arcs, each arc is called a degree. The degree is divided into 60 minutes, and the minute into 60 seconds. The length of a degree, minute, or second, depends on the size of the circle. If the size of the circle is... 
