 | Thomas Malton - 1774 - 484 pages
...SPHERE, is any Right Line puffing through its Center, and terminated by its Surface. As A B. NB A Sphere may be conceived to be generated, by the revolution of a Semicircle; as ADB, on its Diameter AB, which remains fixed whilft th« Semicircumference revolves ; and, in its... | |
 | Peter Nicholson - 1809 - 426 pages
...43. H The Sections of Solids. OF A GLOBE. DEFINITION8. A globe is a solid figure, and may be supposed to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, which becomes the axis of the globe, and the centre of the semicircle is the centre of the globe. Corollary... | |
 | John Greig - 1816 - 224 pages
...is a solid cube, bounded by six square sides, which are equal. A. 34. A sphere is a solid, described by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, which is fixed, and represents the artificial globe : the true shape of the earth or natural globe, being an oblate spheroid,... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1819 - 574 pages
...surface all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle I LIE (fig. 220) about its diameter 1)E ; Fig. 220. for the surface thus described by the curve DAE... | |
 | Robert Woodhouse - Plane trigonometry - 1819 - 300 pages
...are equally distant from an interior point, called the centre of the sphere. The surface of a sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle round its diameter. 2. Every section of a sphere, made by a plane, (so it will be demonstrated) is... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1822 - 394 pages
...surface, a1' the points of which are equally distant from a point within, called the centre. D The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE about its diameter DE ; for the surface described in this movement, by the curve DAE, will have... | |
 | James Mitchell - Mathematics - 1823 - 666 pages
...length of the tree, for the content. GLOBE, in Geometry, a round solid body, which may be con cereed to be generated by the revolution of a semi-circle about its diameter : it is also called a sphere. See SPHERE. GLOBK, or Artificial Gtobet in Geography and Astronomy, is... | |
 | Edward Riddle - Nautical astronomy - 1824 - 572 pages
...every point of which is at the same distance from a point within, called the centre. Cor. 1. A sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle, about its diameter. Cor. 2. The section of a sphere, by a plane passing through the centre, is a circle ; for every straight... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre, John Farrar - Geometry - 1825 - 294 pages
...surface all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE (fig. 220) about its diameter DE ; Fig. 220. for the surface thus described by the curve DAE will... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre, John Farrar - Geometry - 1825 - 280 pages
...surface all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle DAE (fig. 220) about its diameter DE; Fig. 220. for the surface thus described by the curve DAE will... | |
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