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We examine the determination of the volume of solids by means of a virtual balance, in Archimedes’ Method a work preserved only in the Archimedes palimpsest.
We concentrate on the intersection of two cylinders, whose volume is correctly stated in the preface, although the folia containing the proof are lost.
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Saito, K., Napolitani, P.D. (2014). Reading the Lost Folia of the Archimedean Palimpsest: The Last Proposition of the Method . In: Sidoli, N., Van Brummelen, G. (eds) From Alexandria, Through Baghdad. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36736-6_10
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