point of observation

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History comes with its very own Doppler effect: as our point of observation changes, so does our understanding of what we are seeing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Noiselessly, they reached their former point of observation.

From Bert Wilson at Panama by Duffield, J. W.

In the present case the temperature of the atmosphere was about ten degrees higher than that of the sea's surface at the50 point of observation.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

The Ochil Hills were north of his point of observation.

From Meteorology or Weather Explained by M'Pherson, J. G.

Ralph drew back from his point of observation, took a quick breath, and was palpably excited.

From Ralph of the Roundhouse by Chapman, Allen