Rev. Inscription, m e n s h a b i t a t m o lem . v ir g . g e o r . m .d c c .-
x x x ix . (Mind inhabits t h e mass.is Virg. Georg., 1739.)
2-1.
MB. Ml. Very rare.
This medal was executed about the year 1731 in compliment
to the memory of Locke, probably at the expense of Mr. Thomas
Hammond, who certainly ordered one of Newton by the same
artist. The dies are in the British Museum. No such expression
as that quoted on the reverse occurs in the Georgies, but
in the Aeneid, vi. 727, is Mens agitat molem.
74. J o h n L o c k e . Died, 28 Oct. 1704.
Bust of Locke, r., hair long, in shirt with open collar, and
coat. Leg. jo h a n n e b l o c k e . Below, oatjnois . e .
Rev. Inscription, n a t u s w b i n g t o n i p e o p e b b i s t o l i t jm i n
ANGLIA . AN . M.DC.xxxii . o b h t a n . M .D C C .iv . (Born at Wring-
ton, near Bristol, in England, 1632,- died, 1704.) Ex. s e r i e s
NUMISMATIOA UNIVERSALIS VIRORUM ILLUSTRIUM. M.DCCC.XIX. DURAND EDIDIT.
1-6.
MB. M.
One of the medallic series executed at Paris of illustrious
persons of all countries. (See No. 1, Vol. I. p. 4.) Two dies
were made for the obverse of this medal; the other has the
artist’s name on the truncation.
75. G io b g io BAGLivr. 1704.
Bust of Baglivi, r., hair curly, in plain falling collar, doublet
buttoned, and cloak. Leg. g . b a g u v t js . m e d . in . bom .
a b c h il . p . e t . soc . b e g . lo n d . c o l l . (Giorgio Baglivi,
Physician, Professor at the Chief College at Borne, and Fellow
of the Koyal Society of London.) Behind, s v . (Ferdinand
St. Urban.)
Rev. A tripod encircled by a snake, between a mortar, retort,
and other implements of medicine, &c. Leg. vnam . fa c iem v s .
v tb am q v e . (We shall make them both one.) Ex. m d c c i ih .
1‘55. Kluyskens, Vol. I. p. 35.
MB. .33. St. Petersburg, M. Very rare.
Giorgio Baglivi, an illustrious physician, born at Ragusa in
1669, studied at Padua and Bologna, settled at Rome, and was
appointed professor of anatomy at the College of La Sapienza.
He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, being
elected in 1698. He died in 1707. This medal was struck in
his lifetime, a proof of the high reputation he had acquired,
especially by combining the study of medicine with the true
and rational principles of natural philosophy; an union which
suggested the type of the reverse.
76. J o h n R ay. Died, 17 Jan. 1705.
Bust of Ray, three-quarters, I., hair long, in clerical bands
and robes ; within a raised border of flowers.
Rev. A monumental urn under a weeping willow: j e t . 77.
Ex. Ino ba y . PBS . NAT 1627 . ob t . 1704.
2-1 by 1-7.
MB. 2E. Hunter, 2E. J. Sanders, iR. Rare.
Cast, chased, and in high relief, and supposed to be the work
of Gaab (See No. 1, Vol. I. p. 23). The specimens of this
medal in the British Museum and in the Hunter collection give
the type of the obverse only: that formerly belonging to Mr.
Sanders is now in Germany. John Ray or Wray (as he at one
time spelt his name), the naturalist, was the son of a blacksmith,
and was born at Black-Notley in Essex, 29 Nov. 1627,
and died there, 17 Jan. 1705. He was the author of various
works upon Natural History, and may be considered as the
founder of true principles of classification in the vegetable and
animal kingdoms. The border of flowers on the obverse alludes
to Ray’s fondness for Botany. He took orders at the Restoration,
but never held any clerical preferment.
77. P e o je c t s o p P e a c e . 1705.
Three short pillars or cippi united by a chain; one, surmounted
by a laurel wreath, is inscribed, pvgna t e e e e s t b i
v o l . I I . T