Is That A Big Number?

If Time since the birth of Dickens (210 y) was a standard unit ...

Age of oldest musical instrument (42,000 y)...more would be 200 x Time since the birth of Dickens

Time since first domestication of cattle (10,500 y)...more would be 50 x Time since the birth of Dickens

Time since first domestication of cats (10,500 y)...more would be 50 x Time since the birth of Dickens

Time since the start of the Bronze Age (5,300 y)...more would be 25 x Time since the birth of Dickens

Age of oldest wooden wheel (5,150 y)...more would be 25 x Time since the birth of Dickens

Time since the birth of Julius Caesar (2,120 y)...more would be 10 x Time since the birth of Dickens

Time since the birth of Cleopatra (2,090 y)...more would be 10 x Time since the birth of Dickens

Time since the birth of Fibonacci (852 y)...more would be 4 x Time since the birth of Dickens

Time since Shakespeare's play Hamlet was written (423 y)...more would be 2 x Time since the birth of Dickens

Time since the birth of Pierre de Fermat (421 y)...more would be 2 x Time since the birth of Dickens

Time since the birth of Darwin (213 y)...more would be about as big as Time since the birth of Dickens

Time since the birth of Ada Lovelace (207 y)...more would be about as big as Time since the birth of Dickens

Time since the first Volkswagen Beetle produced (84 y)...more would be 2/5 of Time since the birth of Dickens

Period of Uranus's orbit (84 y)...more would be 2/5 of Time since the birth of Dickens

Time since the first human walked on the moon (53 y)...more would be 1/4 of Time since the birth of Dickens

Time since first Boeing 747 entering service (52 y)...more would be 1/4 of Time since the birth of Dickens

Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.