For different perspectives:

- Richard Olson, [Technology and Science in Ancient Civilizations](https://books.google.it/books?id=0vP50ra6SYAC&printsec=frontcover) (2010)

- [G.E.RLloyd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._E._R._Lloyd), [The Revolutions of Wisdom: Studies in the Claims and Practice of Ancient Greek Science](https://books.google.it/books?id=wN5qQgAACAAJ) (1989)

- G.E.R. Lloyd & Nathan Sivin, [The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece](https://books.google.it/books?id=PwB_IH0blNYC) (2002).

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More specifically on *mechanics*, see:

- Sylvia Berryman, [The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy](https://books.google.it/books?id=5UohAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover) (2009).