The phrase "historical observation" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It can be used to refer to an observation made about a past event or period of time. Example: In his historical observations, the author noted that the Industrial Revolution brought about significant changes in society and the economy.
Driving Home teems with acerbic humour but it contains, too, a wealth of astute cultural and historical observation of the Pacific north-west.
The pro-bourgeois case would start with the historical observation that liberal values like tolerance and freedom have been a product of commercial life.
Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson's latest objectionable historical observation – and old-fashioned victim blaming – is that the Holocaust would have been "diminished" if the Jews had carried guns.
A Nov. 18 letter writer made a significant historical observation when he referred to President Clinton's Vietnam visit as "an insult".
Leon Eisenberg, an early pioneer in psychopharmacology at Harvard, once made the notable historical observation that "in the first half of the 20th century, American psychiatry was virtually 'brainless.'.
Now, as we go about the process of adjusting ourselves to this new world of terrible conflict, we can and must take heart from that one seemingly paradoxical historical observation: both as New Yorkers and as Americans, we have been in this new world before.
Though the comparison is not direct, we observed less education on rounds than historical observations (Table 6).
And historical observations: "Nasser was killed by poison, Sadat by a bullet and Mubarak by Facebook".
A 'reanalysis' is a climate, ocean, or weather model simulation of the past that incorporates data from historical observations.
The same goes for the historical observations — the fact that nobody smiled in nineteenth-century photographs, or Anna's admission that she was a child bride because "I just didn't want to end up like one of those fifteen-year-old spinsters".
Noaa's historical observations were thrown out by unaccounted-for differences between the measurements taken by ships using buckets and ships using thermometers in their engine in-takes, the increased use of ocean buoys and a large increase in the number of land-based monitoring stations.
