Daniel Vaughan

Daniel S. Vaughan (or Vaughn; c. 1821 - April 6, 1879) was an Irish-born mathematician, chemist, astronomer, and scientific writer interested in many other fields besides, who was active in Ohio and Kentucky during the mid-nineteenth century. Vaughan was considered in his time to be something of a savant, noted for having a meekness of character and for being highly reclusive, as well as experiencing enduring impoverishment, which combined to ultimately bring about his death by starvation in 1879.

Papers

 * &mdash; per Proceedings of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sixth Meeting: "An abstract of this paper was presented by Prof. Henry, who stated that Mr. Vaughan had attempted to prove that there was a current of thermo-electrity which circulated around the earth in the same direction as the sun; and that when there was a change in latitude of isothermal lines, there was an interruption or break in the thermo-electric current. The origin of this supposed current was referred to the unequal heating of the earth's surface by the rays of the sun, which, passing in the course of twenty-four hours entirely around the earth, produces a continuous current in the same direction."
 * &mdash; [an article of some note, insofar as Andrew Jackson Davis, famed Spiritualist, was later accused of plagiarising it.]
 * &mdash; included in Physical Astronomy (1858)
 * &mdash; Phys. Ast. (1858)
 * &mdash; Phys. Ast. (1858)
 * &mdash; per Proceedings of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sixth Meeting: "An abstract of this paper was presented by Prof. Henry, who stated that Mr. Vaughan had attempted to prove that there was a current of thermo-electrity which circulated around the earth in the same direction as the sun; and that when there was a change in latitude of isothermal lines, there was an interruption or break in the thermo-electric current. The origin of this supposed current was referred to the unequal heating of the earth's surface by the rays of the sun, which, passing in the course of twenty-four hours entirely around the earth, produces a continuous current in the same direction."
 * &mdash; [an article of some note, insofar as Andrew Jackson Davis, famed Spiritualist, was later accused of plagiarising it.]
 * &mdash; included in Physical Astronomy (1858)
 * &mdash; Phys. Ast. (1858)
 * &mdash; Phys. Ast. (1858)
 * &mdash; Phys. Ast. (1858)
 * &mdash; Phys. Ast. (1858)