"the seeking to place the world in some definite order is bordering on obsessive."

I don't think it's that surprising have you met many mathematicians?

Sorry he found an unrecorded volcanic eruption in some records? He found "A new eyewitness record of the extinct dodo" that's 400 years old? These seem to me to be rather dubious claims.

The final dodos went extinct only about 400 years ago, so not that surprising.

Right but it somehow a new eyewitness record and also 400 years old at the same time?