For different perspectives:
Richard Olson, Technology and Science in Ancient Civilizations (2010)
G.E.RLloyd, The Revolutions of Wisdom: Studies in the Claims and Practice of Ancient Greek Science (1989)
G.E.R. Lloyd & Nathan Sivin, The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece (2002).
More specifically on mechanics, see:
- Sylvia Berryman, The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy (2009).