1692 in science
The year 1692 in science and technology:
Events
- In the American colonies, the Salem witch trials develop, following 250 years of witch-hunts in Europe.
Mathematics
- The tractrix, sometimes called a tractory or equitangential curve, is first studied by Christiaan Huygens, who gives it its name.
- John Arbuthnot publishes Of the Laws of Chance, the first work on probability theory in English.
Medicine
- Thomas Sydenham's Processus integri is published posthumously.
Births
Deaths
- May – John Banister, English missionary and botanist, accidentally shot