 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1863 - 464 pages
...distant from 0 (B. VI., PV, C.) ; hence, the section is a circle ; which was to be proved. Gor. l. When the cutting plane passes through the centre of the sphere, the radius of the section is equal to that of the sphere ; when the cutting plane does not pass through... | |
 | Alfred John Pearce (astrologer.) - 1864 - 152 pages
...sphere, is called a section of the sphere. All sections of a sphere made by planes are circles. If the cutting plane passes through the centre of the sphere, the section is a great circle ; if it does not, the section is a small circle. All great circles are equal to one... | |
 | Charles Davies, Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1869 - 470 pages
...equally distant from 0 (B. VI., PV, C.) ; hence, the section is a circle; which was to be proved. Cor. 1. When the cutting plane passes through the centre of the sphere, the radius of the section is equal to that of the sphere; when the cutting plane does not pass through... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1871 - 490 pages
...distant from 0 (B. VI., PV, C.) ; hence, the section is a circle ; which was to be proved. Cor. 1. When the cutting plane passes through the centre of the sphere, the radius of the section is equal to that of the sphere ; t when the cutting plane does not pass through... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1872 - 464 pages
...distant from 0 (B. VI., PV, C.) ; bence, the section is a circle ; which was to be proved. Cor. 1. When the cutting plane passes through the centre of the sphere, the radius of the section is equal to that of the sphere; when the cutting plane does not p.iss through... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1874 - 464 pages
...equally distant from 0 (B. VI., PV, C.); hence, the section is a circle; which was to be proved. (for. 1. When the cutting plane passes through the centre of the sphere, the radius of the section is equal to that of the sphere; when the cutting plane does not p.iss through... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1874 - 500 pages
...distant from 0 (B. VI., PV, C.) ; hence, the section is a circle ; which was to be proved. Cor. 1. When the cutting plane passes through the centre of the sphere, the radius of the section is equal to that of the sphere; when the cutting plane does not p.iss through... | |
 | Charles Davies, Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1885 - 538 pages
...equally distant from 0 (B. VI, PV, C.); hence, the section is a circle; which was to be proved. Cor. 1. When the cutting plane passes through the centre of the sphere, the radius of the section is equal to that of the sphere; when the cutting plane does not pass through... | |
 | John Humphrey Spanton - Geometrical drawing - 1895 - 608 pages
...required. GREAT CIRCLES. If a sphere is intersected by a plane, the section is always a circle. When the plane passes through the centre of the sphere, the section is called a great circle; eg the equator and also the meridians are great circles. Let us take the sphere (Fig. 50) and construct... | |
 | John Henry Walsh - Algebra - 1903 - 564 pages
...and FG are diameters. 455. If a sphere be cut through at any part, the cut surface will be a circle. When the cutting plane passes through the centre of the sphere, the circle is called a great circle ; other circles are called small circles. FXOC is a great circle ;... | |
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When the cutting plane passes through the centre of the sphere, the section is called a great circle. 
