Trevor Collins

Because we have written documents on clay and on stone that have survived for millennia, several thousand years.

I got homework from high school that's long gone.

Yeah.

I mean, paper is very fragile.

I feel like, not to overextend this topic, but I feel like we're in the 90s, right?

We had film, which has amazing visual fidelity.

And then we moved into digital, which is modern-wise very good.

But in the 90s, all my home videos are like, why does this look so bad?

And it's just loss.

It's just lossy.

You can't rescan it and get it to be 4K.

That's what paper is.

Anyway.

Let's talk about Henry Avery.

He was born near the town of Plymouth in Devon, England.

And this was in 1653, though I do want to say some sources cite the year as 1659, making the man a whole six years younger, potentially.

Now, I also want to say that his name was sometimes spelled, importantly, note this, Henry Avery.

Same spelling, but an A instead of an E. And he's also been referred to because of this last name as Jack Avery or John Avery.

But Avery is important for one of the key theories.

Now, it's believed that his father worked at sea, which would spark Henry's interest in also becoming a maritime employee of a vessel just going out yonder.