Abstract
An influential tradition which holds that Euclid's Optics and linear perspective conflict has been established by Erwin Panofsky and continued by John White, Morris Kline, Nelson Goodman and others.1 This is a surprising position because both systems attempt to develop a means of analyzing visual appearances in geometric terms, and to do this both make use of a cone of vision as the basis of the analysis while leaving aside psychological and physical aspects of vision. Euclid's Optics studies the apparent size, shape, and position of objects from a point of observation, while the central problem for linear perspective is determining the relative size, shape, and placement of objects in a scene as they appear at a picture plane. Thus these two systems take a similar approach to questions which are closely related. If the two systems conflict in their geometrical analysis, there might be reason to suppose that one or both are conventionally established geometries, that they
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