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The wonderful biography of French biking famous person Jacques Anquetil Containing particular contributions from Anquetil's family members, buddies, teammates, and rivals, this biography untangles fantasy from truth and confirms that truth is well stranger than fiction. Jacques Anquetil was once the 1st guy to win the journey de France 5 occasions; the 1st guy to win all 3 grand tours—the journey de France, Giro d'Italia, and Vuelta a España; and the 1st guy to win either the journey and Vuelta in a single yr. although, the extreme tale of Anquetil doesn't cease at his biking achievements. He admitted to utilizing medicinal drugs, angry enthusiasts by way of confessing that his simply motivation for driving was once monetary, and infamously indulged his enthusiasm for the excessive existence. He additionally seduced his doctor's spouse, had a baby together with her daughter, after which sustained a ménage à trois together with his spouse and stepdaughter for 12 years. it is a interesting, candid examine a arguable and extraordinary guy.
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15. AT(NP), 8:314-5. 16. , 5:389. 17. More, CSPW, AA, 46. 18. , 42. As it stands, this argument cannot count against Cartesian mechanism, since Descartes' material particles do not move fortuitously, but according to divinely-established laws of nature. However, More did not believe that the initial chaos in Descartes' cosmogony, ruled by mechanical law, could have devolved into the ordered world we know without guiding Providence. A more serious problem is that 'blind fortuitous jumblings' are necessarily not subject to any natural laws whatever, whether mechnical or not.
18 In the 1662 edition of the Antidote, and later in the Enchiridion metaphysicum, More introduced the air-pump experiments that Boyle reported in his New Experiments physico-mechanical touching the spring of the air (1660), to show that one of them at least could not be accounted for in mechanical terms. 19 How can the sucker of an exhausted air-pump draw upwards of its own accord a weight of 100 Ibs. or more? More concedes that Boyle's hypothesis of 'an elastick power in the air' is the most plausible explanation, yet such an enormous pressure ought to exist everywhere in the air; and a pat of butter of the same diameter as the sucker, for example, ought to be squeezed flat, and the liquids squeezed out of it, with a total force of 200 Ibs, which obviously does not happen.
33. AT(NP), 5:383, from Gabbey, 211. 34. , 213. 35. 'Quod vero addit externam aliquam esse vim, sive a Deo sit, sive a substantia ali qua incorporea a Deo creata, qua materia in motum excitatur ... ac si Divina illa vis singula corpora immediate impelleret quae moventur, magna erit difficultas; frustra enim essent mutui corporum impulsus', AT(NP), 5:646, 356. 36. John Henry, 'Occult Qualities'. Henry More and the limits of mechanism 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. More, CSPW, IS, 11. Ibid. Hyrne to More, 19 aug.