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

With this object I borrowed my father's field-glass, and, retiring to a convenient point of observation, focussed it on the clock-face.

From All Men are Ghosts by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)

Every one has his own point of observation.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

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

A good noon sight fixed the point of observation to 84° 50ʹ, longitude 95° 36ʺ.

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