Talk:Henry Thomas Buckle

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I deleted much of one paragraph because it was contradictory and had obviously been written by someone with a hatred of Buckle (it is said in the 19th century that the church hated Buckle even more than Darwin). The paragraph tried to show that Buckle didn't know what he was talking about but then ended with the fact that many of his ideas have passed on into today's works. I used a little from the Microsoft Encarta quote on him to round the paragraph off. A great man like Henry Buckle was deserves better than lies said against him. Unregistered. 16:30 12 September 2007. (UTC) Revealing user addresses is illegal in the EU.

Story of his chess playing

The most notorious slowpoke in England was Elijah “The Bristol Sloth” Williams: In the fourth game of his London match against Henry Thomas Buckle in 1851, Williams lavished such exquisite care on his 25th move that Buckle had time to write two chapters of his History of Civilization.

Buckle won. “The slowness of genius is hard to bear,” he said, “but the slowness of mediocrity is intolerable.”

From http://www.futilitycloset.com/2011/01/06/sitzfleisch/

--Rarian rakista (talk) 19:08, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Ongoing editing

I am in the process of adding citations and expanding the article with section changes as needed. Vejlefjord (talk) 22:46, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Buckle's Chess skills

"At age nineteen, Buckle first gained distinction as a chess player. He was known as one of the best in the world. In matchplay he defeated Kieseritsky and Loewenthal."

Shouldn't it be said that Buckle was a great amateur chess player rather than one of the best chess players in the world? Joshua D. Muthi (talk) 16:57, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

In the 19th century really all chess players were amateurs. The idea of a chess professional didn't really exist, perhaps outside of some hustlers who made a living gambling. Buckle was one of the world's best at that time. Quale (talk) 17:50, 8 January 2022 (UTC)