Astrology

[gary webb]

Reading C.V. Wedgwood's Thirty Years War, and came across this line which
Pynchon mentions in Mason & Dixon, the part where Maskelyne and Mason are
casting each other's horoscope

"A pseudo-scientific interest in Astrology was the fashion. Kepler himself,
half humorously, half indignantly, averred that the astronomer could only
support himself by ministering to the follies of astronomy's "silly little
daughter, astrology""