Buckle as the Father of Scientific History

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Buckle as the Father of Scientific History

Sunday 24 November 2024 is the 197th anniversary of the birth of Henry Thomas Buckle (24 November 1821 – 29 May 1862), who was born in London on this date in 1821. Buckle died at only forty years of age in Damascus, Syria.

Buckle is sometimes called the “Father of Scientific History,” and he formulated a method for scientific history that he presented in his History of Civilization in England, a large work left unfinished upon his early death. I take Buckle as a point of departure for considering the scientific status of history.

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