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The year 1692 in science and technology:

• In the American colonies, the Salem witch trials develop, following 250 years of witch-hunts in Europe.^[1]

• 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.

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

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