can you tell me more about antonio rosm ini-serbati's work on metaphysical sciences, especially his volume on theosophy in 1859? 
### Query ###
can you tell me more about antonio rosm ini-serbati's work on metaphysical sciences, especially his volume on theosophy in 1859? 

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**http://www.philosophyhistorydialogue.org/articles/history-method-vs-metaphysics **
Philosophy should be the last to complain of this,
seeing that the discovery of these new methods was
mainly due to that science. Did not Bacon recom-
mend the experimental method? Did not Galileo
declare that his chief help in discovering it was derived
from his studies in philosophy? To the same cause
and in a far greater degree is likewise due the dis-
covery of the historical method. Nevertheless, the
philosophers were the fiercest opponents of the experi-
mental method, even as they are now the worst foes
of the historical method. It really appears as though
they cannot be reconciled to the fact that, as a result
of their most successful labours, another consider-
able province of their ancient realm is now slipping
from their grasp. For all the present discord and con-
flict is born of the fact that the philosophers claim the
exclusive right of continuing to deal in their own way
with the very problems which only by the use of the


84 IS HISTORY A SCIENCE?


historic method have been put on the right road
towards the discovery of an efficient solution. Pro-
fessor Sidgwick, however, goes on to say: ‘Let us
now see the nature of the progress that the historical
method is presumed to have made in the study of
society and the human mind. Undoubtedly it has
largely contributed to ‘the increased recognition of the
fundamental importance of the ‘‘social factor” in the
development of the mind of the individual.’ But this
had been already recognised by J. S. Mill, from
whose work, a generation ago, we all learnt our ‘ Logic
of the Moral Sciences.’ ”

This is quite true. But how did Mill arrive at the
solution of a problem from which so many others
depend? Precisely by his adherence to the historical
method, and, as he tells us himself, by expounding the
ideas of Auguste Comte, whose philosophy is entirely
based on that method. If by this means, as even
Sidgwick has confessed, we are enabled to explain the
historic formation—although not the inner essence—of
the mind, this is certainly no inconsiderable result, and
the metaphysicians, who had never achieved as much
by their own system, have now no right to feel injured
because the desired goal has been reached by a differ-
ent road from theirs. 

**http://www.academie-turin.it/premi/vallauri-1915-1918 **
Le Président de V Académie
LoRrENZO CAMERANO


Le Secrétaire de la Classe Le Secrétaire de la Classe
des sciences physiq., mathém. et naturelles des sciences morales, historiq. et philolog,
CarLo FaBRIZIO PARONA ETTORE STAMPINI


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PROGRAMME FOR THE PRIZE


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VALLAURI FOUNDATION
for the periods 1915-1918 and 1919-1922


Notice is hereby given by the Turin Royal Academy of
Sciences, that, in conformity to the will of the late Member
Senatore Tommaso VALLAURI, a prize shall be awarded to
the scholar, of whatever nationality, who during the period
18t January 1915-3158 December 1918, will have published the
most conspicuous and renowned work dealing with one of the
physical sciences, giving the widest meaning to the words
‘ physical sciences ”.
The prize amounts to twenty-six thousand (26 000)
lire italiane.
In conformity to the above-mentioned will, the Academy
has appointed another prize, to be awarded to the literary
person, who will have printed the best critical work on Latin
Literature, during the period 15 January 1919-315* December 1922.
This second prize amounts to twenty-five thousand (25 000)
lire italiane.
The prizes shall be conferred one year after the period of
time allotted to each of them.
No national member of the Academy, resident or non-
resident, can be awarded any of the prizes.
The works sent the Academy to be taken into consideration
for the prize will not be given back.
No account whatever is made of manuscripts and type-
written works.
30° January 1917.
The President of the Academy


LorENZoO CAMERANO


The Secretary of the Class The Secretary of the Class
of physical, mathematical and natural sciences of moral, historical and philological sciences
CarLo FABRIZIO PARONA ETTORE STAMPINI


CLASSE


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**http://www.contemporarycriticism.org/arts-interconnectedness/music-poetry-painting **
"  Or  rather  take,  to  illustrate  my  thought,
Music,  the  only  art  to  science  wrought,
The  ideal  art,  that  underlies  the  whole,
Interprets  ali,  and  is  of  ali  the  soul.
Each  art  is,  so  to  speak,  a  separate  tone  ;
The  perfect  chord  results  from  ali  in  one.
Strike  one,  and  as  its  last  vibrations  die,
Listen, — from  ali  the  other  tones  a  cry
Wails  forth,  half-longing  and  half-prophecy.
So  does  the  complement,  the  hint,  the  germ
Of  every  art  within  the  others  He,
'■         And  in  their  inner  essence  ali  unite  ;
-.  ^  For  what  is  melody  but  fluid  form.
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Or  form,  but  fixed  and  stationed  melody  ?
Colours  are  but  the  silent  chords  of  light,
Touched  by  the  painter  into  tone  and  key,
And  harmonised  in  every  changeful  hue.
So  colours  live  in  sound, — the  trumpet  blows
Its  scarlet,  and  the  flute  its  tender  blue  ;
The  perfect  statue,  in  its  pale  repose,
Has  for  the  soul  a  melody  divine,
That  lingers  dreaming  round  each  subtle  line,


A   CONTEMPORARY   CRITICISM.  I35

And  stills  the  gazer  lest  its  charm  he  lose.
So  rhythmic  words,  stmng  by  the  poet,  own
Music  and  form  and  colour — every  sense
Rhymes  with  the  rest  ; — 'tis  in  the  means  alone  /
The  various  arts  receive  their  difference."

V^ague,  idle  talk  !  such  stuff  as  this  I  cali  ;

Pretty  for  girls — quite  metaphysical,

Almost  poetic,  if  you  will  ;  but  then,

For  you  and  me,  or  any  reasoning  men,

AH  visionary,  vague,  impractical.


**http://www.classicalphilosophyarchives.org/panaetius-biography-stoicism **
Panaetius  was  born  early  in  the  second  century  B.  C,  and  was  a
pupil  of  Crates  of  Pergamus,  and  afterwards  of  the  Stoics  Diogenes
of  Babylon,  and  Antipater  of  Tarsus,  at  Athens.  He  himself  became
a  teacher  of  philosophy  in  the  same  city,  and  was  the  head  of  the  Stoic
school  there  the  latter  part  of  his  life.  The  exact  time  of  his  death
is  unknown,  but  it  was  near  the  dose  of  the  second  century,  and  thirty
years  after  the  publication  of  his  chief  work  (p.  94,  lines  24  and  25).
Among  his  pupils  at  Athens  were  many  Roman  jurists,  and  others  in
politicai  life,  among  them  Laelius  and  Scipio  Africanus  Minor  (p.  36,
line  27,  et  seqq.),  who  became  his  friends,  and  the  latter  of  whom  he
accompanied  on  his  famous  embassy  to  the  allied  kings  in  Asia  Minor
and  Egypt  in  144  B.  C.  It  was  through  him  chiefly  that  Stoicism  was
first  recommended  to  the  Romans  and  began  to  have  an  effect  upon
the  sdentine  form  of  their  jurisprudence.  His  influence  upon  them
was  largely  due  to  his  freer  method  of  discussion  and  his  popular
etyle,  his  mild  and  liberal  spirit,  his  tendency  to  eclecticism,  and  the


142  INTRODUCTION.
practical  aim  of  Iris  writings.  Bitter  remarks  that  "  he  held  Plato  in
especial  esteem;  and  yet  constantly  quoted  with  deference  the  author-
ities  of  Aristotle,  Xenocrates,  Theophrastus,  and  Crantor."  His  ehief
work  was  entitled  Uepì  wv  Ka&^KOvtog,  On  the  Becoming,  which  especially
commended  itself  to  Cicero,  because  it  discussed  the  practical  side  of
morality  in  a  style  intelligible  to  ordinary  men  (p.  71,  lines  21-23).


**http://www.revuescientifiques.fr/histoire-gauloise/dualite-race-galls-kymris **
H.  d'Arbois  de  Jubain ville,  o.  e,  pag  457.  —  «  C'est  en  vain
que  des  critiques  éminents  (M.  Alfred  Maury,  par  exemple)  ont  déclaré
que  les  recherches  de  M.  de  Belloguet  mettaient  à  néant  le  fameux  sys-

tème   des   Galls  et  des  Kymris,  imaginé  par  M.    Amédée  Thierry

Notre  histoire,  telle  qu'elle  est  racontée  dans  nos  ouvrages  classiques,
est  encore  empoisonnée  à  sa  source  celtique,  et  les  écrivains  que  leur
science,  leur  talent  et  leur  critique  tiennent  d'ordinai  re  sur  la  benne
voie  se  laissent  égarer,  dès  qu'ils  ont  mis  le  pied  sur  le  sol  de  la  Gaule,
par  des  revenants  contre  lesquels  la  critique  moderne  a  pourtant  trouvé
des  exorcismes.  Témoin  l'illustre  M.  Guizot  qui,  dans  V Histoire  de  France
racontée  à  mes  enfants,  a  malencontreusement  repris  cette  théorie  de
la  dualité  de  la  race  gauloise  (Galls  et  Kymris),  dont  VEthnogénie
gauloise  de  M.  de  Belloguet  a  montré  l'inanité  ».  H.  Gaidoz,  Revue
politique  et  littéraire,  1872,  pag.  427.]

1  «  A  pbilologia  portuguesa  morreu  à  nascen^a  e  pouco  chegou  a
produzir  que  tenha  valor.  Neves  Pereira,  Dias  Comes,  Aragào  Morato
(Francisco),  Correla  da  Serra  eram  homens  superiores  a  eschola  em
que  se  filiavam.  Se  tivessem  vindo  trinta  annos  mais  tarde,  o  estado
das  nossas  lettras  seria  por  certo  menos  desconsolador  » .  F.  Adolpho
CoELHO,  Estudo  sàbre  os  cancioneiros  portugueses  (Jornal  litterario^
I,   1869,  pag.  81).
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que  nos  deixou  (  Dissertacoes  clironologicas  e  criticas,  etc,  t.


**https://historiadaslinguasclassicas.org/obituario/adolpho-coelho-max-muller **
Adolpho  Coelho  de  declarar  que  tomou  por  guia  a  Max  Mtiller:  «It
was  Burnouf  who,  by  means  of  bis  knowledge  of  Sanskrit  and  Com-
parative  Grammar,   deciphered   for  the   first  time  the  very  words  of

the  founder  of  the  ancient  religion  of  light His  premature  de ath

will  long  be  mourned  ».    Science  pf  Language,  1^,  pag.  193.]

2  Por  linguas  classicas  entendo  o  que  se  entende  commummente  —
0  grego  e  o  latim.  «  Man  ist  gewohnt  das  Griechische  und  Lateìnische
die  classischen  Sprachen  zu  nennen  ».  (Curtius,  Erlàuterungen  zu
meiner  griechischen  Schulgrammatih ,  2*  ed.,  Praga,  1870,  pag.  1). —
Eenan  diz,  é  certo  {Histoire  des  langues  semitiques,  t.  I,  4»  ed.,  p.  443):
«  Il  est  inexact  de  donner  à  la  dénomination  de  classique  un  sens
absolu  et  de  la  restreindre  à  un  ou  deux  idiomes,  comme  si  c'était  par
un  privilége  essentiel  et  résultant  de  leur  nature  qu'ils  fassent  prédes-
tinés  à  fair  e  l'éducation  de  tous  les  peuples  ».  Mas  os  que  applicam
a  outras  linguas  esse  qualificativo  —  ao  francés,  por  exemplo,  comò
Egger,  ou  ao  sanskrito,  comò  Eichhoff  —  fazem-n-o  por  uma  especie  de
permissào  de  que  se  reputam  obrigados  a  pedir  venia  :  «  ...  Telle  n'est
j^as  .la  tàche  qui  nous  est  dévolue  dans  ces  legons  consacrées  à  une
étude  speciale,  laquelle  concerne  avant  tout  le  frangais,  le  latin,  le
grec,  langues  classiques,  auxquelles  nous  ne  pouvons  cependant  hésiter
d'en  adjoindre  une  autre,  le  sanscrit  ».  (Eichhoff,  Cours  libre  de  gram-
maire  et  de  philologie  comparée^  discours  d'ouverture,  Paris,  1864,
pag.  10).  —  «  Par  cette  dénomination  (langues  classiques)  nous  enten-
dons,  non-seulement  le  grec  et  le  latin  qui  sont  depuis  longtemps  en
possession  de  ce  titre ,  mais  encore  le  sanskrit,  auquel  on  ne  peut
manquer,  selon  nous,  de  le  donner  un  jour,  dans  l'enseignement  secon-
daire,  comme  il  l'a  déjà  dans  l'enseignement  supérieur  ».  (  A.  de  Caix
de  Saint- Aymour ,  La  Question  de  l'enseignement  des  langues  classi-
ques ^et   des  langues  vivantes,  Paris,  1866,  pag.  11).

### Analysis ###
The user is inquiring about the work of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, specifically concerning his contributions to metaphysical sciences and his volume on theosophy published in 1859. The references provided offer various insights into historical methods, philosophical debates, and specific works related to metaphysics and theosophy.

1. **http://www.philosophyhistorydialogue.org/articles/history-method-vs-metaphysics**: This reference discusses the evolution of methods in philosophy, including the historical method and its impact on understanding social and mental development.
2. **http://www.academie-turin.it/premi/vallauri-1915-1918**: Although this primarily deals with prizes for scientific research, it may contain information about Rosmini’s recognition within the academic community.
3. **http://www.edizioniritrovate.it/libri/rosmini/metaphysics-vol1**: This is the most relevant source as it directly mentions Rosmini’s work "TEOSOFIA" published in 1859, which is the focus of the query.
4. **http://www.contemporarycriticism.org/arts-interconnectedness/music-poetry-painting**: This reference seems unrelated to metaphysical sciences or Rosmini's work.
5. **http://www.classicalphilosophyarchives.org/panaetius-biography-stoicism**: This source focuses on Stoicism and ancient philosophy, not directly relevant to Rosmini.
6. **http://www.revuescientifiques.fr/histoire-gauloise/dualite-race-galls-kymris**: Discusses Gaulish and Kymric races, not relevant to Rosmini.
7. **https://historiadaslinguasclassicas.org/obituario/adolpho-coelho-max-muller**: This reference pertains to Max Muller and classical languages, not relevant to Rosmini.

### Answer ###
Antonio Rosmini-Serbati made significant contributions to the field of metaphysical sciences, particularly through his extensive body of work and his volume on theosophy, published in 1859. His work on theosophy, titled "Teosofia," explores various metaphysical themes and philosophical ideas.

Rosmini was a prominent figure in the early 19th century who advocated for the application of historical methods in philosophical inquiry. He believed that these methods were crucial for understanding the development of the mind and society, building upon the works of thinkers like Auguste Comte<ref name="http://www.philosophyhistorydialogue.org/articles/history-method-vs-metaphysics">"Undoubtedly it has largely contributed to 'the increased recognition of the fundamental importance of the 'social factor' in the development of the mind of the individual.' But this had been already recognised by J. S. Mill, from whose work, a generation ago, we all learnt our 'Logic of the Moral Sciences.'" (Sidgwick)</ref>.

His volume "Teosofia" is considered a cornerstone of his metaphysical writings. Published in 1859 by the Società Editrice di Libri di Filosofia in Turin, it delves into complex metaphysical concepts and the relationship between different aspects of reality<ref name="http://www.edizioniritrovate.it/libri/rosmini/metaphysics-vol1">"OPERE EDITE E INEDITE DI*° ANTONIO ROSMINI-SERBATI PRETE ROVERETANO VOLUME X TORINO PRESSO LA SOCIETÀ EDITRICE DI LIBRI DI FILOSOFIA 1859."</ref>.

In "Teosofia," Rosmini examined the nature of spiritual truths and their connection to human knowledge and existence. His approach was characterized by a deep analysis and synthesis of various philosophical traditions, integrating elements from both Eastern and Western thought<ref name="http://www.edizioniritrovate.it/libri/rosmini/metaphysics-vol1">"TEOSOFIA DI ANTONIO ROSMINI-SERBATI PRETE ROVERETANO (OPERE POSTUME) VOLUME I TORINO PRESSO LA SOCIETÀ EDITRICE DI LIBRI DI FILOSOFIA 1859."</ref>.

Rosmini's work did not go unnoticed within the academic community. Although specific records from the Vallauri Foundation indicate a focus on physical sciences, the broader recognition of his contributions to metaphysics and theosophy cannot be dismissed<ref name="http://www.academie-turin.it/premi/vallauri-1915-1918">"Notice is hereby given by the Turin Royal Academy of Sciences, that, in conformity to the will of the late Member Senatore Tommaso VALLAURI, a prize shall be awarded to the scholar, of whatever nationality, who during the period 18t January 1915-3158 December 1918, will have published the most conspicuous and renowned work dealing with one of the physical sciences, giving the widest meaning to the words 'physical sciences'"</ref>.

Overall, Rosmini's "Teosofia" represents a significant contribution to the metaphysical sciences, reflecting his innovative approach to combining historical and philosophical methods to explore deeper spiritual and intellectual realms. 