↳ Use the arrow keys to rotate the building, or press space to still it! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↳ What is 17 Gough Square? ∘ Built in 1700 by architect Richard Gough, 17 Gough Square is a building in Central London best known for being the home of the writer Samuel Johnson between 1748 and 1759. During his residence there, he wrote his famed Dictionary, the first major one for the English language. It is the last of Johnson's surviving London homes, and is today recognised as a museum to Johnson and his circle alongside the Johnson Birthplace Museum in Lichfield. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↳ The attic, or the garret, as it is more properly known, is where Johnson had his setup for the Dictionary. Today, the room isn't exactly as historical as the rest of the building - during the Second World War, it was destroyed by German bombs! Luckily, the rest of the building remained intact. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↳ Fun fact: Samuel Johnson's most famous cat, Hodge, lived here! Despite cultural aversion to cats during 18th-Century England, Johnson was a great lover of cats, having many over his lifetime. To this day, there is a small statue of a black cat outside Gough Square, sitting atop a dictionary. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↳ Want to hear more about Samuel Johnson? Read about him here! https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/681282966/
↳ If you liked this project, feel free to leave a love or a favourite. It means a lot to me! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↳ Credits: ∘ The music is "Kangaroo" by Vlad Gluschenko, from free-stock-music.com ! It's under Attribution 3.0 of Creative Commons. (Funnily enough, this music is called house music.) ∘ Thanks to @kkidslogin , @Za-Chary , and @MediocreClarinet for some advice with the making of this project! ∘ Much of the visual aid for this rendering (dimensions, etc.) came from a small paper model that I bought from Gough Square itself! ∘ Thumbnail text from cooltext.com , fonts "Cooper" and "Veggieburger". ∘ All code and art by myself! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↳ This is my first time ever using the Pen function in Scratch! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↳ Many thanks to the Johnson Society of London for helping keep the memory of Samuel Johnson and Gough Square alive! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↳ Tags: #3D #Art #Animations #Stories #London #Samuel #Johnson #House #Rendering
