Beograd (Serbia), 2017

“Kralj Petar Prvi” primary school

(44° 48′ 57″ N, 20° 27′ 18″ E, A = 112,5°)

Figure 1. The sundial has been made on a PVC board (140 x 100 x 1 cm).

Fig. 2. The sundial was originally placed low, just behind the school playground, and then moved to the third floor (out of reach of soccer balls).
Fig. 3. Moving the sundial to a safer place.
Fig. 4. Poem “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes” by British poet Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJinK-IzSuc

Prevod na srpski jezik:

Svetlost

Noć bezbroj očiju ima,
  A samo jedno dan;
Blistavog sveta sjaj guta tmina
  Kad sunce savlada san.

Um očiju bezbroj ima,
  A srce jedno krasi;
Života svetlost crn bezdan prima
  Kad ljubav se gasi.

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Fig. 5. The plate of the sundial was broken 2021. by the southeast wind (Serbian cyrillic: Кошава), which blows during autumn and winter, and reaches a speed of up to 100 km/h.
Fig. 6. On October 13, 2022, a new, simpler sundial was installed instead of the broken one. The installation was done by the professor of the Faculty of Geography, Dr. Aleksandar Petrović, with the assistance of Ratomir Veselinović, master of geography.
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