 | Charles Davies - Surveying - 1830 - 318 pages
...of trigonometrical calculations, the circumference of the 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. 26. As the circumference of a circle may be regarded... | |
 | Francis Joseph Grund - Geometry, Plane - 1830 - 274 pages
...described with any radius between their legs. The circumference is for this purpose divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes; each minute again into 60 equal parts, called seconds, &c. 16. The magnitude of an angle does not depend... | |
 | Ira Wanzer - Arithmetic - 1831 - 408 pages
...Astronomers, Navigators, &c. Note 2. — 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 seconds, and each second into 60 thirds, &c. 16. Of Particulars. 12 Particular... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Physics - 1832 - 308 pages
...another constellation, and near the star a. Each of the 12 signs of the zodiac is divided into 30 smaller parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes, and each minute into 60 parts, called seconds, The division of the zodiac into signs, is of very ancient... | |
 | Francis Joseph Grund - Geometry, Plane - 1834 - 212 pages
...described with any radius between their legs. The circumference is, for this purpose, divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; each minute, again, into 60 equal parts, called seconds, &c. 16. The magnitude of an angle does not... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Mathematics - 1834 - 484 pages
...next figure.) 3. The circumference of a circle is supposed to be divided or to be divisible into 360 equal parts, called degrees; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes; each of these into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; and so on to the minutest possible subdivisions.... | |
 | William Smyth - Plane trigonometry - 1834 - 104 pages
...radii. ' 10. The entire circumference of every circle, whether great or small, is divided into 360 equal parts called degrees, each degree into 60 equal parts called minutes, each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds, each second into 60 equal parts called thirds, &c.... | |
 | Thomas Spofford - Almanacs, American - 1835 - 84 pages
...ellipse, and the sun is in one of the foci. Each orbit is divided into 12 equal parts called signs j each sign into 30 equal parts called degrees; each degree into 60 equal parts called minutes; each minute into 60 seconds ; each second into 60 thirds, &c. Beginning at that part of the ecliptic... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Physics - 1835 - 308 pages
...another constellation, and neai the star a. Each of the 12 signs of the zodiac is divided into 30 smaller parts, called degrees; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes, and each minute into GO parts, called seconds. The division of the zodiac into signs, is of very ancient... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1836 - 394 pages
...For the purposes of trigonometrical calculation, the cir cumference of the 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. The semicircumference, or the measure of two right... | |
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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. 
