Opals Part 1

I have a bit of a bone to pick, and I do apologize because I-

I-

[laughs]

Sorry, okay.

[laughs]

I, I kinda feel like I've been complaining a lot in our podcast, so I am sorry if you're tired of me complaining.

I, it's, it's not...

I don't like complaining, I promise.

It's just that every time I do research, every time I look stuff up, something pops out at me that kinda bothers me.

Anyway, one of the resources that I, I really like for these history episodes is natural, um, Natural History from Pliny the Elder.

So if you've listened to more and more of our episodes, or if this is your first one, maybe this will be your first introduction.

But I tend to refer back to Pliny the Elder whenever I do my research.

Yeah.

And specifically Natural History.

For those of you who don't know, this is a collection of volumes ranging from astronomy, geology, zoology, botany, human physiology, all the stuff, basically.

It's a compendium of information.

There are even, uh, some art sections.

So-

Yeah

... it's a lot of stuff, and it was written w- by Pliny the Elder around 77 AD, so it's an older text as well.

So naturally it's been translated and collated multiple times since its original creation, essentially, because-

Original 70s

... [laughs] we can't, we can't really read or understand-

Yeah, no

... what, what he would've been saying verbatim fully back then, because we don't have the same cultural understanding of things.

I have a bit of a bone to pick, and I do apologize because I-

I-

[laughs]

Sorry, okay.

[laughs]

I, I kinda feel like I've been complaining a lot in our podcast, so I am sorry if you're tired of me complaining.

I, it's, it's not...

I don't like complaining, I promise.

It's just that every time I do research, every time I look stuff up, something pops out at me that kinda bothers me.

Anyway, one of the resources that I, I really like for these history episodes is natural, um, Natural History from Pliny the Elder.

So if you've listened to more and more of our episodes, or if this is your first one, maybe this will be your first introduction.

But I tend to refer back to Pliny the Elder whenever I do my research.

Yeah.

And specifically Natural History.

For those of you who don't know, this is a collection of volumes ranging from astronomy, geology, zoology, botany, human physiology, all the stuff, basically.

It's a compendium of information.

There are even, uh, some art sections.

So-

Yeah

... it's a lot of stuff, and it was written w- by Pliny the Elder around 77 AD, so it's an older text as well.

So naturally it's been translated and collated multiple times since its original creation, essentially, because-

Original 70s

... [laughs] we can't, we can't really read or understand-

Yeah, no

... what, what he would've been saying verbatim fully back then, because we don't have the same cultural understanding of things.