"Kepler states expressly that he gave the name Foci to certain points related to the conic sections which had previously "no name." With their new name he associated his new views about the points themselves, and his doctrines of Continuity (under the name Analogy) and Parallelism, which would soon have become known, and would after a time have been taken up by competent mathematicians.... A letter of Henry Briggs to Kepler [dated Mar 10, 1625] suggest improvements in the Paralipomena ad Vitellionem. In this letter Briggs... comprehended and accepted Kepler's way of looking at parallels as lines to or from a point at infinity in one direction or its opposite."