There
were some difficulties to be negotiated here.
Galileo had been tutor to young Cosimo when his father Ferdinando was
the grand duke, and that was good. But
he had also been asked to work up a horoscope for Ferdinando the previous year,
and had done so, and found that the stars predicted a long and healthy life for
the grand duke, in the usual way. But
then, shortly thereafter, Ferdinando had died.
That was bad.
(from Galileo’s Dream by Kim
Stanley Robinson)
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