The discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii and the broadened scope of geography in the eighteenth century, and developments in mathematics and physics that began in the nineteenth and continued into the twentieth, renewed studies of ancient works of art led to the creation of opposing factions regarding the “question of perspective”: those who maintained the existence of a single possible perspective, and those who upheld the existence of multiple perspective constructions. To shed light on the debate, this present paper examines some of the factors behind the two positions.

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N维空间与透视：古代透视解释背后的数学

赫库兰尼姆和庞贝城的发现以及 18 世纪地理范围的扩大，以及从 19 世纪开始并持续到 20 世纪的数学和物理学的发展，对古代艺术作品的重新研究导致了对立的派系的产生。 “视角问题”：坚持单一可能视角存在的人，以及坚持多视角建构存在的人。为了阐明这场争论，本文考察了这两种立场背后的一些因素。