What did the recovered text change about Archimedes' mathematics?
Most likely: newly read passages of The Method show Archimedes treating infinitely many objects as completed wholes and…Ahead on the evidence, not yet confirmed. It needs two reviews to be accepted.
Where it stands
Four answers have been proposed. Newly read passages of The Method show Archimedes treating infinitely many objects as completed wholes and… leads, with evidence 1 for: partly supported by its tests. Three are still possible.
Why it matters
The Method and the Stomachion survive only here. The project's scholar argued that the new readings show reasoning not previously credited to Archimedes[1].
Answers 4
History
- Heiberg: heiberg had already read and published The Method and the Stomachion from the palimpsest in 1910 to 1915.For: The new readings refine Heiberg's text but do not change the established picture of Archimedes' methods.
- Netz & Noel puts forward: newly read passages of The Method show Archimedes treating infinitely many objects as completed wholes and…
- Netz & Noel puts forward: the Stomachion is a study of how many ways the dissected square can be reassembled, an early work of…
- Netz & Noel: netz's reading rests on passages recovered by the new imaging and is argued in the project's account.For: Newly read passages of The Method show Archimedes treating infinitely many objects as completed wholes and…
- Acerbi: only a short fragment of the Stomachion survives, which limits any reading of its aim.Against: The Stomachion is a study of how many ways the dissected square can be reassembled, an early work of…
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