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

“So common!” and Mr. Ideal goes away from his secluded point of observation.

From Threads of Grey and Gold by Reed, Myrtle

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

Nor are you often favored with a sight of him in more frequent autumnal tramps, unless when he is fleeing before the hounds whose voices guide you to a point of observation.

From In New England Fields and Woods by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)

At the moment the three boys reached their point of observation things were rapidly drawing near a crisis.

From The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line Or, With the Allies in France by Marlow, Ralph