foci

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For it was very difficult to define the Places of the Foci, without some little Errors.

From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Newton, Isaac, Sir

Suppose you have four laya centers in Europe: four Foci through which psychic impulses from the Oversoul pour through into this world.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth

Foci are also met with in the upper end of the ulna.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

Let A, B, C, D be an ellipse representing the orbit of the earth, and let S represent the sun situated at one of the Foci.

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George

Prop 29, 30, there is an elegant Method of determining these Foci; not only in spherical Surfaces, but likewise in any other curved Figure whatever: And in Prop.

From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Newton, Isaac, Sir