1692 in science
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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.
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, mathematician (died 1770)
Deaths
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