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“Bliss Botanic” and “Cocks Heroic”: Two Darwins in the “Temple of Nature” Get access

Evelleen Richards
in Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection
Published: 27 April 2017
...Figure 3.1. Frontispiece by Henry Fuseli from Erasmus Darwin’s Temple of Nature. The goddess of poetry unveils the many-breasted Artemis of Ephesus, the fertile goddess of nature. Erasmus Darwin’s evolutionary theorizing was intensely sexualized: life was born “from Nature’s...