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In the first millennium BCE influential individuals in China, in India, in Persia, and among the Jews and the Greeks, liberated themselves from the mythical heritage. In this period, the Axial Age, philosophy was born. Moreover, also in politics, a more rational approach became visible. This was also the context of the appearance of Greek science. It led to pure mathematics, Aristotle’s logic, and the first books on a science of machines.
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Koetsier, T. (2019). The Axial Age and the Birth of Western Science. In: The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96547-5_4
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