 | Samuel Webber - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...English. The kilare is equal to 1000 ares, the myriare to 10000 ares. For fire-wood the atere is the unity of measure. It is equal to a cubic metre, containing...comprehended in this system, and made to conform to their unity of weight. The weight of the Franc, of which one tenth is alloy, is fixed at five grammes ; its... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...way, and containing the log. sines, tangents, and secants, of the quadrant, divided first into 10O degrees, each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. The logarithmic canon serves to find, readily the logarithm of any assigned number; and we are told... | |
 | Silvestre François Lacroix - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...unit of measure. It is equal to a cubic metre, containing 35,3171 cubic feet English. The decistere is the tenth of a stere. The quadrant of the circle...their unit of weight. The weight of the franc, of whicli one tenth is alloy, is fixed at 5 grammes ; its tenth part is called dtcimt, its hundredth part... | |
 | James Hayward - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 218
...26 ; a different system has been adopted in France. This system divides the circumference into 400 degrees ; each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. we draw through the centre, the two lines an and 6 m, parallel to the two lines AN and BM, they will... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 426
...fixed upon : and hence the French, in their measures of the circle, divide it into 400 equal parts or degrees; each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. The reason why the number 360 appears to have been selected is, that this number may be divided into... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...fixed upon : and hence the French, in their measures of the circle, divide it into 400 equal parts or degrees ; each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. The reason why the number 360 appears to have been selected is, that this number may be divided into... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 744
...by the sign ('" ) J bat more frequently decimals are used to express the unaller divisions. called degrees ; each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. When this division is used by English writers, they generally give the name of grades to the degrees.... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 586
...fixed upon : and hence the French, in their measures of the circle, divide it into 400 equal parts or degrees ; each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. The reason why the number 360 appears to have been selected is, that this number may be divided into... | |
 | John Russell Hind - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 76
...division of the circle occasionally employed in astronomical tables. The circumference is divided into 400 degrees, each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. Central Eclipse. — See Eclipse. Cepheus. — One of the ancient' northern constellations. Ceres.... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 878
...fixed upon : and hence the French, in their measures of the circle, divide it into 400 equal parts or degrees ; each degree into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. The reason why the number 360 appears to have been selected is, that this number may be divided into... | |
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... heavens, as that which surrounds an artificial globe, is divided into the same number of parts. The number 360 is entirely arbitrary, and any other number, had mathematicians chosen, might have been fixed upon : and hence the French, in their measures... 
