1692 in science

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

• April 22 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician

  Deaths

• May – John Banister, English missionary and botanist, accidentally shot