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
Dietetic Treatment.—The diet is the chief point of observation and attention.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.
The miner was just arousing from sleep, when Dan reached this point of observation.
From The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service by Dana, Marvin Hill
Suddenly it began to rise, boiling and spluttering, and sending out huge masses of steam, causing a general stampede of our company, driving us to some distance from our point of observation.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 by Various
Let us imagine Cicero, or Aristotle, to be permitted to revisit the earth, and study its new modes of thought as they would strike them from their old and, therefore, unbiased point of observation.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
