The only mistake of this article, perhaps (although I only skimmed), is to presume that the myth proceeded the scientific entity. Often it is the reverse. Each culture and civilization tends to develop a unique scientific culture, vocabulary, and set of concepts from preexisting constructs, often developed by the original method of viewing the world: religion. Thus the "force" concept or the "field" concept which so distinguish the greatness of Western science were first pioneered by late Midieval scholaticists with their new conception of God.
I would agree with this (except that I would replace "religion" with "traditional cosmology" or something similiar. It makes more sense when one is referring to Chinese science or even Indian science to a degree.)