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

The moon swung to the south and off to the west, and the shadows lay long in the forest before the old captain moved from his point of observation.

From The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel by Gordon, Harry

Dietetic Treatment.—The diet is the chief point of observation and attention.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.

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

We saw the upper slopes only occasionally from our point of observation.

From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.