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===Tycho's moose and dwarf===
===Tycho's moose and dwarf===
Tycho was said to own one percent of the entire wealth of [[Denmark]] at one point in the 1580s and he often held large social gatherings in his castle. He kept a dwarf named Jepp (whom Tycho believed was [[clairvoyant]]) as a court [[jester]] who sat under the table during dinner. [[Pierre Gassendi]] wrote (http://www.nada.kth.se/~fred/tycho/nose.html)| Tycho Brahe's Nose And The Story Of His Pet Moose, [www.nada.kth.se] from a translation from Gassendi that Tycho also had a tame [[moose]], and that his mentor the Landgraf [[William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel|Wilhelm]] of [[Hesse-Kassel]] asked whether there was an animal faster than a deer. Tycho replied, writing that there were none, but he could send his tame [[moose]]. When Wilhelm replied he would accept one in exchange for a horse, Tycho replied with the sad news that the moose had just died on a visit to entertain a nobleman at [[Landskrona]]. Apparently during dinner the moose had drunk a lot of beer, fallen down the stairs, and died: why the moose was indoors was not specified.(Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century)
Tycho was said to own one percent of the entire wealth of [[Denmark]] at one point in the 1580s and he often held large social gatherings in his castle. He kept a dwarf named Jepp (whom Tycho believed was [[clairvoyant]]) as a court [[jester]] who sat under the table during dinner. [[Pierre Gassendi]] wrote [http://www.nada.kth.se/~fred/tycho/nose.html]Tycho Brahe's Nose And The Story Of His Pet Moose, [www.nada.kth.se] from a translation from Gassendi that Tycho also had a tame [[moose]], and that his mentor the Landgraf [[William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel|Wilhelm]] of [[Hesse-Kassel]] asked whether there was an animal faster than a deer. Tycho replied, writing that there were none, but he could send his tame [[moose]]. When Wilhelm replied he would accept one in exchange for a horse, Tycho replied with the sad news that the moose had just died on a visit to entertain a nobleman at [[Landskrona]]. Apparently during dinner the moose had drunk a lot of beer, fallen down the stairs, and died: why the moose was indoors was not specified.(Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century)
===Death===
===Death===
