The Greeting to the Sun by architect Nikola Bašić. consists of three hundred multi-layered glass plates placed on the same level with the stone-paved waterfront in the shape of a 22-meter diameter circle. Under the glass conduction plates there are photo-voltage solar modules through which symbolic communication with nature is made, with the aim to communicate with light, just like the Sea Organs do with sound.
The photo-voltage solar modules absorb the sun energy and then transform it into electrical energy by releasing it into the distributive voltage power network.
The names and numbers carved on the ring surrounding the installation on the waterfront – Greeting to the Sun - are part of the St.Grisogonus Calendar, developed in Zadar and found in 1964 in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. It dates from 1292 or 1293, and is among the oldest of such documents in the world, and possibly the first to have astronomy data written in Arabic numbers.
Besides the calendar with the feast days and names of saints, it also has the astronomy part which shows the sun efemeride, the coordinates of the heavenly bodies, their angle distances from determined immovable flat surfaces, straight lines or points.
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