# Newly read passages of The Method show Archimedes treating infinitely many objects as completed wholes and…

> Most likely: Newly read passages of The Method show Archimedes treating infinitely many objects as completed wholes and comparing them.

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# Newly read passages of The Method show Archimedes treating infinitely many objects as completed wholes and…

Newly read passages of The Method show Archimedes treating infinitely many objects as completed wholes and comparing them.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests partly supported it: one piece of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- The disputed passages of Method proposition 14 read as Netz reports in the released images.

## What would rule it out

- The passages read otherwise or admit a reading with potential infinity only.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[Netz's reading rests on passages recovered by the new imaging and is argued in the project's account.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest/evidence/EVD0CT7N8GG6PM6/netzs-reading-rests-on-passages-recovered-by-the-new-imaging)

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## The questions it answers

[What did the recovered text change about Archimedes' mathematics?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest/questions/QST0CT7N4KG76TA/what-did-the-recovered-text-change-about-archimedes)

Part of [Did the imaging programme recover the erased Archimedes text wherever the parchment survives?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest/questions/QST0CT7N43W11MX/did-the-imaging-programme-recover-the-erased-archimedes-text)

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