The proof of Proposition 9 in Archimedes' On the Sphere and the Cylinder, Book i, contains an unproved statement that has been referred to as a lacuna. Most editors and experts in Archimedean texts have agreed on the existence of this gap and have offered different proofs for the statement, some of them with incomplete or even incorrect arguments. In this paper, I offer arguments of a mathematical, historical, and textual nature that show that it is not necessary to assume the presence of any gap in the text.
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