1692 in science
# 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 (translated from Huygens' De ratiociniis in ludo aleae), the first work on probability theory in English.

## Medicine

* Thomas Sydenham's Processus integri ("The Process of Healing") is published posthumously.

## Births

* April 22 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (died 1770)

## Deaths

* May – John Banister, English missionary and botanist, accidentally shot (born 1654)
