[elorant]

I have no hate for Christianity. I'm just stating the facts. It took the western world 1.500 years to go from the Antikythera mechanism to the first automatons. And those 1.500 years were when Christianity took reign over Europe.

[nkoren]

The Antikythera mechanism likely was likely built in Rhodes. Rhodes itself had, by that point, been famous for its automatons for several hundred years.

[devereaux]

The world is not limited to Europe.

Greek inventions could have been replicated in any other part of the world not subject to the middle ages and also having access to greek archives and knowledge (Middle East)

My argument from good old Civ5: some invention require a network of other advancements to take hold, otherwise they are not good alternative to existing technology and the constraints it imposes (as in, what good would a modern computer have been in ancient Greece in measurement errors made the fine precision of the advanced calculations exihibit more variance than simpler method using rough estimations?)