Iconographic representations

Iconographical representations of Hermes Trismegistus are, however, more rare in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries than would be expected—at least, this author is aware of no more than ten (see... 

Fig. 2.1-19 Boiling curve and dew-point curve of a binary mixture left) with iconographic representation of the lever rule right)...

Hermes Trismegistus has been an iconographic subject since the dawn of the Renaissance, even before the rediscovery of the texts of the Corpus Heimeticum. He appeared in both Hermetic and alchemical contexts as a figure quite distinct from the alchemical Hermes-Mercury, whose representations fill the numerous treatises on the Great Work illustrated in the seventeenth century. 

Figure 4.3 Pseudo-three-dimensional, iconographic, and linear representations of calix[ 6 arene conformations...

The authenticity is obviously enhanced when gadgets and technologies are shown that look familiar to the viewer. Chemistry is often presented in conjunction with familiar instruments. As Schummer and Spec-tor have shown some of these are iconographic for the representation of science as a whole like the chemist holding up a flask and gazing at it (Schummer Spector 2007). 

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