Abstract

Available from UMI in association with The British Library. ;Direct and significant narrations of the Human's past subsume so complex a multitude of problems that, taking exception for some few areas, no formal, quantified and predictive theory of historical reconstitutions has, so far, been constructed. ;A first step towards overcoming this situation is outlined in the essay. ;The work is primarily devoted to historical/scientific reconstitutions; special emphasis is laid upon the so called "domain of Natural Science". Throughout it a rather unconventional way of looking upon human's past achievements in that area is proposed, discussed and progressively developed: not as a mere repository of inventions and discoveries , not as a simple reproduction of the possible cognitive processes which their authors used but rather as a cybernetic adaptive learning process . ;The use of this approach allows, in particular: to demonstrate that Science may be globally regarded as a growing system, to give expression to this growth in terms of an evolutionary model binding the approaches of PIAGET, WALLON, FREUD, HARTMANN etc , psychological affective and cognitive paradigms are involved), to describe this evolution in formal and quantifiable terms , to reproduce it in a special purpose cybernetic device , to perform historical experimentation varying the value of the parameters, relationships and constraints by means of which the system is described). ;The essay ends with a practical application; the construction of an entailment-mesh of the First Image of Nature