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I have long noticed that the ancient Greeks had a compulsion to attribute everything to an inventor, often implausibly so to someone very famous; I think I have found the apotheosis of this tendency in Aristotle attributing the invention of the baby rattle to "mathematician, music theorist, statesman, and strategist" Archytas.
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