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A Method of Dividing the Circumference of a Circle into 360 equal parts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

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This Graduation of the Circumference of a Circle is effected by the aid of an instrument called a trisector which I contrived with the view of trisecting an angle by its assistance, but subsequently perceived that it could help to divide an angle into 5 equal angles, and recently discovered that it could contribute towards dividing the circumference of a circle into 360 equal degrees or arcs.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1904