| Charles Hutton - 1818 - 646 σελίδες
...the middle. Thus the angle contained by the lines BA and 3D is called the angle BAC BAD or DAB. 67. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be...equal parts, called Degrees : and each degree into 60 Minutes, each minute into 60 Seconds, and so on. Hence a semicircle contains 180 degrees, and a quadrant... | |
| William Nicholson - 1819 - 414 σελίδες
...otherwise called a periphery ; the boundary of a right lined figure being expressed by the term perimeter. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 degrees. The angle at the circumference of a circle is double that at the centre. For the ratio of... | |
| William Hawney - 1820 - 336 σελίδες
...thus the arch I)E is the measure of the angle DBE aud the arch GH is the measure of the angle ABC. 1*. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes : and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds.... | |
| Bewick Bridge - 1821 - 648 σελίδες
...For the purpose of exhibiting arithmetically the magnitude of angles, the whole circumference of the 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.... | |
| Edward Bruce (bookseller.) - 1821 - 418 σελίδες
...the centre. / 1. A less circle divides a globe into two unequal parts. Every circle, great or small, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; and every degree is subdivided into 60 minutes. Degrees are marked °, and minutes'. Thus,—4 deg. 15... | |
| Sidney Edwards Morse - 1822 - 706 σελίδες
...diameter is a straight line drawn through the centre from one side of the circumference to the other. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 minutes ; each minute into 60 seconds. An arc of a circle is part of its circumference.... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1822 - 354 σελίδες
...ecli^tc, and the two colurvs. equal parts. These are four, the two tropics, and (he two polar circles. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 00 equal parts, called seconds.... | |
| Sidney Edwards Morse - 1822 - 706 σελίδες
...diameter is a straight line drawn through the centre from one side of the circumference to the other. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 minutes ; each minute into GO seconds. An arc of a circle is part of its circumference.... | |
| Anthony Nesbit, W. Little - 1822 - 916 σελίδες
...part of a circle, as ADC. " *fi. A sector is any part of a circle bounded by an arc sad two radii. 47. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds,... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 308 σελίδες
...and in more modern times, Napier, the inventor of logarithms, and Briggs. In plane trigonometry, the circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; every degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; every minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds... | |
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