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)
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