Gender in the history of architecture

‘Nature and Nature’s Laws lay hid in the night; God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light’, proclaimed Alexander Pope in 1731. With an almost equal assurance Carolus Linnaeus said of himself: ‘Deus creavit, Linnaeus disposuit’ – ‘God created, but Linnaeus set in order.’ ¹ The frontispiece to his Systema Naturae, first published in 1735, shows Linnaeus in the Garden of Eden as a second Adam, writing the new names of animals and plants down in his book.