1692 in science
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The year 1692 in science and technology:
Events
[edit]- In the American colonies, the Salem witch trials develop, following 250 years of witch-hunts in Europe.[1]
Mathematics
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Thomas Sydenham's Processus integri ("The Process of Healing") is published posthumously.
Births
[edit]- April 22 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (died 1770)
Deaths
[edit]- May – John Banister, English missionary and botanist, accidentally shot (born 1654)[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Gale, Robert L. (February 2000). Corey, Martha (1625–22 September 1692), Salem "witch". American National Biography Online. Oxford University Press.
- ^ "Joseph and Nesta Ewan. <italic>John Banister and His Natural History of Virginia, 1678–1692</italic>. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1970. Pp. xxx, 485. $15.00". The American Historical Review. December 1971. doi:10.1086/ahr/76.5.1588. ISSN 1937-5239.