...fyc. The geographical measure of distance is a degree or 360th part of a great circle of the earth; the degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds. Circles passing round the earth parallel to the equator at given distances from each other, whether...

...fyc. The geographical measure of distance is a degree or 360th part of a great circle of the earth ; the degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds. Circles passing round the earth parallel to the equator at given distances from each other, whether...

...fyc. The geographical measure of distance is a degree or 3GOth part of a gieat circle of the earth ; the degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds. Circles passing round the earth parallel to the equator at given distances from each other, whether...

...length of the circumference of any circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts. Each of these is called a degree, the degree is divided into 60 minutes, and the minute into 60 seconds. The abbreviations for these three words are ° - ", so that 5 degrees 27 minutes 34 seconds is written...

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...is called an arc. 2. If any circumference, whether large or small, be divided into 860 equal arcs, each arc is called a degree. The degree is divided...minute, or second is also increased or decreased. 8. The greatest circumference of the eurtfagp surface is about 24,930 miles ; 1* of that circumference...

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...is called an arc. O 2. Kany circumference, whether large or small, be divided into 860 equal arcs, each arc is called a degree. The degree is divided...minute, or second is also increased or decreased. 3. For the explanation of the principles of Longitude and Time see Intermediate or Practical Arithmetic,...

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...Angular Measures. — The circumference of a circle is divided into 360 parts; each part being termed a "degree." The degree is divided into 60 minutes, and the minute into 60 seconds. This is known as the sexagesimal division. The French centesimal division of the quadrant into 100...