Building the first analog computer indicates a much more advanced scientific culture than astronomy, mathematics, mechanics etc. as individual areas of study wh

Building the first analog computer indicates a much more advanced scientific culture than astronomy, mathematics, mechanics etc. as individual areas of study which other cultures certainly had. Your example of the mathematical underpinnings of music is ironic because it is something other cultures arrived at as well. So have other cultures made important contributions? Of course they have, and in many areas of study they excelled over the Greeks, but unless your definition of advancement is something other than increasing understanding of & power over our environment, then it is the case that there was nothing like this for ~17 centuries. Obviously, happy to be proven wrong via specific examples, etc.