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A New Reading of Method Proposition 14: Preliminary Evidence from the Archimedes Palimpsest (Part 1)

Reviel Netz, Ken Saito, Natalie Tchernetska, 2001. SCIAMVS 2, 9-29.

The first study of The Method from the new images, arguing that proposition 14 compares two infinite collections of slices as wholes. Part 2 followed in SCIAMVS 3 (2002), 109-125.

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The published origin of the actual-infinity reading.

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Netz, R., Saito, K., & Tchernetska, N. (2001). A New Reading of Method Proposition 14: Preliminary Evidence from the Archimedes Palimpsest (Part 1). SCIAMVS 2, 9-29. https://sciamvs.org/files/SCIAMVS_02_000-000_contents.pdf
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