In my reply I told him about my life, my house in the country, on one of the hills outside Gerona, the medieval city in front of it, the countryside or the void behind.

在我的回信中我告诉了他关于我的生活的情况，我居住在乡下的房子坐落在赫罗纳郊外的一座山上，前面是座中世纪的城市，后面是乡村和空旷地。

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In the book, Sirtori describes a meeting with an aged spectacle maker called Juan Roget in Gerona who he described as the real inventor of the telescope.

BBC: Controversy over telescope origin

In my reply I told him about my life, my house in the country, on one of the hills outside Gerona, the medieval city in front of it, the countryside or the void behind.

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