A spherical angle is a particular dihedral angle; it is the angle between two intersecting arcs of great circles on a sphere. It is measured by the angle between the planes containing the arcs (which naturally also contain the centre of the sphere).[1]

Historically


Spherical angle also has an overall formula on M.Kemal Atatürk's book Geometri[2] in 1936, he used older formulas and techniques to clarify this measurements to make a very ahead of time popular science program for Turkish public education system.

Considering an object needed 6 overall straight faces or 3 dimensions to draw a whole object as it is, he formulated that object to be seen by each dimension so to say we are able to draw it in two dimensions to get a 3rd dimensional image as round has 360 degrees in its angles multiplying a round to its own, giving √ 129600 = 360 or 360*360=129600 as simply. His book Geometri also defines angles can be expanded to infinite when needed for measurements, this methodology for sphere's angles also allowing us to coordinate around a globe for navigation purposes for example and replaces function of coordinates when needed.

See also

References

  1. Green, Robin Michael (1985), Spherical Astronomy, Cambridge University Press, p. 3, ISBN 9780521317795.
  2. Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal (1936), Geometri, İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, ISBN 9786254050428.
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