Sophia Brahe Sophia Brahe Sophia or Sophie Brahe or after marriage Sophie Thott Lange (22 September 1556 or 24 August 1559 – 1643), was a Danish horticulturalist with knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, and medicine. She assisted her brother Tycho Brahe with his astronomical observations. She was born in Knudstrup, as the youngest of ten children, to Otte Brahe "rigsråd," or advisor to the King of Denmark; and Beate Bille Brahe, leader of the royal household for Queen Sophie. Sophia's oldest brother was astronomer Tycho Brahe. Though he was both more than a decade her senior and raised in a separate household, the
Gellio Sasceride erat splendidum" ("[my] debut was excellent"). In 1590, Sasceride had sent to Galileo the only copy of a book until then found in Italy detailing the heliocentric system. The crater Sasserides on the Moon is named after him. It lies near Tycho, named after Tycho Brahe. Gellio Sasceride Gellio Sasceride (Sasserides) (1562–1612) was a Danish astronomer and medical doctor. Sasceride was born in Copenhagen. He worked as an assistant to Tycho Brahe after studying under him. It is believed that the following words were written by Sasceride to Brahe: "Quia adhuc aliquid superest spatii, quae sequuntur paucula, sic expetente typographo,