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

What is the location of your point of observation?

From A Plan for Securing Observations of the Variable Stars by Pickering, E. C.

The senses shall no longer passively receive and report what is before them, but they shall choose some definite point of observation, and neglect all the rest.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)