 | Benjamin Franklin Edmands - 1841 - 88 sider
...2. A DEGREE is the 360th part of a circle, and contains CPJ English miles ; each degree is divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. They are marked (°) degrees, (') minutes, (") seconds. The LONGITUDE of a place, is its distance from... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - 1841 - 324 sider
...every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees; and each degree into 0O equal parts, called minutes; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds; and these into thirds, &c. Hence a semi-circle containi 180 degrees, and a quadrant 90 degrees. 15.... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1841 - 324 sider
...through the centre of the earth. 15 CORRESPOH D, [L. eorrespondeo.} To answer to ; communicate with. parts, called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. 76. The circumference1 of the earth is a great circle of 360 de prees. On this circle every minute... | |
 | John Gregory - 1842 - 328 sider
...derived from the division of a circle into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree being divided into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds, &c. As angles are proportional to the arcs on which they stand (33.6,) the subdivision of the circumference... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1844 - 362 sider
...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 60 equal parts, called seconds. " They are marked thus, 23° 28' 16"; ie 83 degrees, 23 minutes, and 16 seconds. The Equator is an... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1844 - 356 sider
...equator. 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 secotuls. They are marked thus, 23° 88' 16"; ie 23 degrees, 28 minutes, and 16 seconds. The Less Circles... | |
 | William Phillips - 1844 - 832 sider
...which they consist. In measuring angles, the circle is divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 seconds : the divisions being thus designated : 360°, 60', GO". If one fourth part of the circle,... | |
 | Ezra Otis Kendall - 1845 - 404 sider
...circumference of that circle. Every circle is considered as divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ;...and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds. They are marked 0 ' " — thus: 10° 2' 20" — which is read ten degrees, two minutes, and twenty... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - 1845 - 244 sider
...is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each of those degrees is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds ; and so on, to thirds, fourths, &c. These divisions are designated by the following characters, °... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - 1845 - 542 sider
...is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees, and each of those degrees is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds ; and so on, to thirds, fourths, &c. These divisions are designated by the following characters, 0... | |
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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 ; and these into thirds, &c. 
