i think the part between Archimedes and Kepler is deleted, even today in a very multiracial and global because the myth of the history of science is really very shoddy and doesn’t withstand much investigation, like most kinds of scientific autonarration.
It’s not *entirely* due to racial chauvinism, because solidly european philosophers, mathematicians, alchemists and wizards from the period get missed out too.
you can make the standard history of science myth coherent by missing out the greek prologue entirely, and then it becomes a straightforward and recognisable tale about a group of occultists doing the classic occultist trick of “yes and…”ing each others stories except for once, and to everyone’s palpable astonishment, it works to convince people outside of the magic circle too.
the story begins in the 15th century when outsiders (read: nobles and capitalists interested, as they are now, in such things as navigation and complicated weapons systems) start to became convinceable that this philosophy adds value to their lives, and so when it became necessary to produce and accumulate the collection of elevator pitches, cryptographic proofs of work, marketing materials, crankish but attractive side projects, deceptively illuminating explanations, genuinely useful pedagogic aids and general techbro ego-inflation that comprises “The History of Science”
the justification for missing the greek prologue out is by observing that at the time this Great Philosophical Improv got started, basically every intellectual endeavour had to forge a similar fake patrimony: see in this period the great number of kings claiming to be Emperors, or poets not being able to write a simple bit of occasional poetry without having to put a Homeric epithet in every line, or how every new building had to adhere to Vitruvian norms, or the Protestants attempting to recover the spiritual clarity of antiquity. From this view, the ancient Greek stuff is marketing fluff akin to that of *another* group of “yes and” merchants who got going at that time — the Masons.