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AnsweredMultispectral imaging and X-ray fluorescence together recovered the Archimedes undertext on every surviving…
Most likelyThe Netz and Wilson transcription is reliable apart from minor points of notation
Most likelyNewly read passages of The Method show Archimedes treating infinitely many objects as completed wholes and…
Most likelyMuch of what remains is physically lost to scraping, mould and missing leaves and cannot be recovered by any…
Most likelyThe commentary is by Porphyry and preserves fragments of the earlier commentator Boethus of Sidon