 | Joseph Harris - 1732 - 236 pagina’s
...Pole is placed, and the opppfite one is the Southern Hemifphere. The Aftronomers divide all Circles into 360 equal Parts called 'Degrees, each Degree...60 equal Parts called Minutes, each Minute into 60 Seconds, &c. But befides this Divifion into Degrees, the Equir noftial is commonly divided into 24... | |
 | Benjamin Donne - 1796 - 120 pagina’s
...calculating the proportion which angles bear to each other, fuppofe the circumference of every circle to be divided into 360 equal parts, called Degrees...parts, called minutes ; each minute into 60 equal parts named feconds, &c. Ar. B. Sometimes the circumference of a circle is called a circle; as when it is... | |
 | William Taylor (teacher of the mathematics.) - 1800 - 556 pagina’s
...a' femi-eircle • half the diameter is called the Radius. 8. The circumference of every circle is divided into 360 equal parts called Degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called Minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called Seconds, &c. Any part of the the circumference is called... | |
 | 1801 - 446 pagina’s
...the two sides, that, 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... | |
 | Alexander Adam - 1802 - 914 pagina’s
...radii of the fame circle are always equal to one another. The circumference of every circle is fuppofed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 mi* ñutes \ each minute into 60 feccnds ; and thefe into thirds, fourths, &c. greater or ¡efs according... | |
 | Abel Flint - 1804 - 226 pagina’s
...the Centre ; and it 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... | |
 | David Steel - 1805 - 392 pagina’s
...centre to the circumference of a circle, is called a Radius. All the radii of the same circle are equal. The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 parts, called degrees; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutei; and each minute into 60 equal... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - 1806 - 464 pagina’s
...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...; each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; &c. So that a semicircle, or half the circumference, contains 1 80 degrees ; and a quadrant, or fourth... | |
 | Robert Gibson - 1806 - 486 pagina’s
...circumference into two equal 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,... | |
 | 1808 - 290 pagina’s
...Ecliptic. This circle we suppose to be divided into 12 equal parts, called Signs ; each sign . into 30 equal parts, called Degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts called Minutes ; and every minute into 60 equal parts, called Seconds; so that a second is the 60th part of a minute... | |
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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. 
