| Charles Guilford Burnham - 1841 - 324 páginas
...round pyramid, having a circular base. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter,... | |
| 1841 - 200 páginas
...solidity of a globe, or sphere. DEFINITION. — A globe or sphere is (J) a round body bounded by a surface every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre; a line passing from one side to the other through the centre is called the diameter, or... | |
| Richard Abbatt - 1841 - 234 páginas
...SECTION V. SPHERICAL GEOMETRY. (68.) Def. A sphere is a solid bounded on all sides by a curve surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. A sphere may be conceived to be generated by a semicircle's revolving about its diameter,... | |
| Nicholas Tillinghast - 1844 - 110 páginas
...EVERY line which is not straight, is called a curve line. 2. A circle is a space enclosed by a curve line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within ; which point is called the centre. 3. The boundary of a circle is called its circumference. 4. A radius... | |
| John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee COMSTOCK - 1846 - 506 páginas
...GLOBE. A round or spherical body, more usually called a sphere, bounded by one uniform convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. GNOMON. An apparatus used by the ancients for finding the altitudes and declinations of... | |
| James Robinson (of Boston.) - 1847 - 304 páginas
...the figure F, the frustum of a cone. 7. A SPHERE, or GLOBE, is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter.... | |
| Elias Loomis - 1849 - 252 páginas
...III. THE CIRCLE, AND THE MEASURE OF ANGLES. Definitions. 1. A circle is a plane figure bounded by a line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the center. This bounding line is called the circumference of the circle. 2. A radius of a circle is a straight... | |
| Charles Guilford Burnham - 1850 - 350 páginas
...round pyramid, having a circular base. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter,... | |
| John Weale - 1850 - 590 páginas
...the top of a bed or canopy Sphere, in geometry, a globe, a solid contained under one uniform surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre of the sphere, and may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle about... | |
| John Weale - 1850 - 600 páginas
...the top of a bed or canopy Sphere, in geometry, a globe, a solid contained under one uniform surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre of the sphere, and may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle aboui... | |
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