Some people have still not gotten used to this, and confused believers (outside Hinduism and Buddhism) still like a literal Biblical chronology of no more then 10,000 years for the history of life, which already is twice the period of most such calculations in the Middle Ages, of which ...
Pliny knew quite a lot about volcanoes—according to him, the ashes from Mt. Etna fell on towns as far as thirty-five miles away, while the hottest lava in the world flowed from a summit in Ethiopia—because he knew quite a lot about everything. At the time of his death, he had be...