CHAPTERS.

The Fourth Book, called Shamayim Waters/Heavens.

I. From what matter or cause the waters were created?
II. What water is, and why God the Lord created it first?
III. What existed before in the place where the water was created?
IV. How many kinds of water there are?
V. Whether the water is clear, pure, transparent, and mixed with nothing?
VI. Whether the first water had the same form or appearance as it does now, or whether it was invisible?
VII. Whether water is not the first mother and cause of the other elements?
VIII. Whether the waters in the first creation were all entirely sweet, or partly salted?
IX. When, and at what time, and how long after the creation the waters became salted?
X. How many and how great virtues sweet water has?
XI. How the medicines should be prepared from the sweet water?
XII. For what illnesses and how the medicines from the sweet water are to be used?
XIII. What the water has within it?
XIV. Whether water does not hold all things that are visible together like a glue?
XV. Whether water has a sensitivity within it?
XVI. Whether there is not always air in the water?
XVII. Whether water is not partly invisible?
XVIII. Whether gemstones do not grow in the water?
XIX. Which gemstones grow in the waters?
XX. Whether all gemstones that grow in the water may be described by name?
XXI. Which gemstones are the best among others?
XXII. Whether some gemstones are found, and how they are separated, with which one might heal all kinds of internal and external illnesses without any preparation, solely through external application?
XXIII. Whether all ores have their origin from the waters?