Daniel Vaughan

Daniel Vaughan
Alias(es)	his name was also given as Daniel Vaughn by some sources
Born	c. 1818 or 1820-1821  Glenomara, County Clare, Ireland
Died	6 April 1879 (58 or 61)  Cincinnati, Ohio
Workplace(s)	Professor of Chemistry, Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery
Affiliations	Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (A.A.A.S.)
Relative(s)	Daniel Vaughan (1791-1859), Catholic Bishop, Diocese of Killaloe

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.

Selected Bibliography

Books

• Vaughan, D. (1856), Phenomena of the Material World, 1, Cincinnati: Longley Brothers, https://books.google.com/books?id=X8U5AAAAcAAJ 
• Vaughan, Daniel (1858), Physical Astronomy: or, An Exposition of Remarkable Celestial Phenomena, Cincinnati: Truman & Spoffard, 25 West Fourth-Street, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012309497 

Papers

• Vaughan, Daniel (August 1849), "Researches in Organic Chemistry", Buchanan's Journal of Man 1 (7): 330-340 
• Vaughan, Daniel (October 1849), "Researches in Organic Chemistry, cont.", Buchanan's Journal of Man 1 (8): 369-383 
• Vaughan, Daniel (December 1849), "Researches in Organic Chemistry, cont.", Buchanan's Journal of Man 1 (9): 426-429 
• Vaughan, Daniel (June 1850), "Researches in Organic Chemistry, cont.", Buchanan's Journal of Man 1 (12): 594-598 
• Vaughan, Daniel (September 1850), "Chemical Principles of Neurological Physiology", Buchanan's Journal of Man 2 (3): 79-83, http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/buchanans_journal_of_man/buchanans_journal_of_man_v2_n3_september_1850.pdf 
• Vaughan, Daniel (1852), On the Influence of Terrestrial Electricity on Climate  — 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."
• Vaughan, Daniel (January 1853), "On the Causes of Rain, and the possibility of modifying them by Art", Buchanan's Journal of Man 4 ([·): 20-25, http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/buchanans_journal_of_man/buchanans_journal_of_man_v4_n1_january_1853.pdf  — [an article of some note, insofar as Andrew Jackson Davis, famed Spiritualist, was later accused of plagiarising it.]
• Vaughan, Daniel (1855), "Researches in Meteoric Astronomy", Report of the Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (London: John Murray): 26-27 
• Vaughan, D. (June 1856), "The Absence of Trees from Prairies", The Cincinnatus 1 (6): 268-274, https://archive.org/details/cincinnatus01farm/page/268 
• Vaughan, Daniel, The Doctrine of Gravitation  — included in Physical Astronomy (1858)
• Vaughan, Daniel, The Cause and Effects of the Tides  — Phys. Ast. (1858)
• Vaughan, Daniel, The Rings of Saturn  — Phys. Ast. (1858)
• Vaughan, Daniel (1858), "On Luminous Meteors and Temporary Stars", London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine 16: 500-503, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x004025379&view=1up&seq=544 
• Vaughan, Daniel (1859), "The Geographical Distribution of Lakes, Cataracts, and Navigable Rivers", Annual of Scientific Discovery: 298, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3082504&view=1up&seq=308 
• Vaughan, Daniel (1859), "Atmospheric Movements", Annual of Scientific Discovery: 399-402, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3082504&view=1up&seq=409 
• Vaughan, Daniel (April 1861), "On the Stability of Satellites in Small Orbits, and the Theory of Saturn's Rings", Phil. Magazine 21 (140): 263-273, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044089571673&view=1up&seq=291 
• Vaughan, Daniel (1861), "On Phenomena which may be traced to the Presence of a Medium pervading all Space", Phil. Magazine Supplement 21: 507-515, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044089571673&view=1up&seq=547 
• Vaughan, Daniel (February 1869), "The Secular Effects of Tidal Action", Phil. Magazine 37: 216-225, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000060016522&view=1up&seq=230 
• Vaughan, D. (September 1874), "Physics of the Internal Earth", Phil. Magazine 48 (317): 237-239, https://books.google.com/books?id=nKxSCc5_cCcC&pg=PA237 
• Vaughan, Daniel (1875), "A Theory of Volcanic Eruptions", Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 8: 133-134, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0370164600029333 
• Vaughan, Daniel (September 1878), "The Astronomical History of Worlds", Popular Science Monthly 13: 571-583, https://books.google.com/books?id=S5pJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA571 
• Vaughan, Daniel (May 1879), "The Origin of Worlds", Popular Science Monthly 15: 1-10, https://archive.org/details/popularsciencemo15newy/page/n9 

Resources

• Venable, W. H. (November 1898), "Personal Recollections of Daniel Vaughn", The Ohio Educational Monthly 47 (11): 515-523, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2996813&view=1up&seq=527 
• "THE QUEEN CITY HERMIT. A Man of Learning Famous in Europe, but a Stranger to His Neighbours. Priest, Chemist, Doctor, Atheist, Philologist, Philosopher.", Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, Ohio): 8, 1897-02-24, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13460868/cincinnati-public-library-old-main/