The incident was immeasurably unfortunate for the French.
In the art of war the Knights were immeasurably superior to all their neighbours.
It is this which places Scaliger on so immeasurably higher an eminence than any of his contemporaries.
Having invented four arguments all immeasurably subtle and profound, the grossness of subsequent philosophers pronounced him to be a mere ingenious juggler, and his arguments to be one and all sophisms. After two thousand years of continual refutation, these sophisms were reinstated, and made the foundation of a mathematical renaissance, by a German professor, who probably never dreamed of any connexion between himself and Zeno.
That's when a bit of padding helps immeasurably.
