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2 unusual facts about Joan Roget


Joan Roget

According to the Catalan optometrist and amateur historian Simon de Gualleuma, Juan was married to Juana of Malaville and migrated to the Catalan town of Girona, Spain, where he worked as a master spectacle maker.

Joan Roget or Juan Roget (d. between 1617 and 1624), was a spectacle maker in Girona, Catalonia, Spain who has been cited as a possible inventor of the telescope.



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