Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Giuseppe Remuzzi (Past President of the international Society of Nephrology)
Chapter 1. The Ambivalent Character of Water
Chapter 2. What Water Is
Chapter 3. Water: A Curse and a Blessing
Chapter 4. Water in Sumerian, Babylonian and Egyptian Cosmology
Chapter 5. Water in Greek Thought
Chapter 6. Philosophers and Water Scientists of the First Millennium AD
Chapter 7. Water and the Philosophers and Scientists of the Second Millennium AD
Chapter 8. Water in Psychology
Chapter 9. Water in Music
Chapter 10. Water in Paintings and Sculptures
Chapter 11. Watery Symbols
Chapter 12. Rivers, Wells, Lighthouses and Water Instruments
Chapter 13. Proverbs and Sayings
Chapter 14. The End Of Water
Postface
Avvocato Gerardo Marotta (President Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies)
Index