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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.^[1]

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.

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

May – John Banister, English missionary and botanist, accidentally shot (born 1654)^[2]