... heavens, as that which surrounds an artificial globe, is divided into the same number of parts. The number 360 is entirely arbitrary, and any other number, had mathematicians chosen, might have been fixed upon : and hence the French, in their measures... An Elementary Treatise on Arithmetic - Σελίδα 123των Silvestre François Lacroix - 1821 - 127 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| Samuel Webber - 1812 - 260 σελίδες
...English. The kilare is equal to 1000 ares, the myriare to 10000 ares. For fire-wood the atere is the unity of measure. It is equal to a cubic metre, containing...comprehended in this system, and made to conform to their unity of weight. The weight of the Franc, of which one tenth is alloy, is fixed at five grammes ; its... | |
| Charles Hutton - 1812 - 514 σελίδες
...way, and containing the log. sines, tangents, and secants, of the quadrant, divided first into 10O degrees, each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. The logarithmic canon serves to find, readily the logarithm of any assigned number; and we are told... | |
| James Hayward - 1829 - 218 σελίδες
...26 ; a different system has been adopted in France. This system divides the circumference into 400 degrees ; each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. we draw through the centre, the two lines an and 6 m, parallel to the two lines AN and BM, they will... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1838 - 426 σελίδες
...fixed upon : and hence the French, in their measures of the circle, divide it into 400 equal parts or degrees; each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. The reason why the number 360 appears to have been selected is, that this number may be divided into... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1838 - 444 σελίδες
...fixed upon : and hence the French, in their measures of the circle, divide it into 400 equal parts or degrees ; each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. The reason why the number 360 appears to have been selected is, that this number may be divided into... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1842 - 744 σελίδες
...by the sign ('" ) J bat more frequently decimals are used to express the unaller divisions. called degrees ; each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. When this division is used by English writers, they generally give the name of grades to the degrees.... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1850 - 586 σελίδες
...fixed upon : and hence the French, in their measures of the circle, divide it into 400 equal parts or degrees ; each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. The reason why the number 360 appears to have been selected is, that this number may be divided into... | |
| John Russell Hind - 1852 - 76 σελίδες
...division of the circle occasionally employed in astronomical tables. The circumference is divided into 400 degrees, each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. Central Eclipse. — See Eclipse. Cepheus. — One of the ancient' northern constellations. Ceres.... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1857 - 878 σελίδες
...fixed upon : and hence the French, in their measures of the circle, divide it into 400 equal parts or degrees ; each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. The reason why the number 360 appears to have been selected is, that this number may be divided into... | |
| Marco Polo, Sir Henry Yule, Henri Cordier - 1993 - 788 σελίδες
...I will mention one thing which is quite decisive as to the Jesuits. The cirile is divided into 365$ degrees, each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. The Jesuits always ased the sexagesimal division. Lecomte speaks of the imperfection of the division... | |
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