Relic, Icon or Hoax?: Carbon Dating the Turin ShroudCRC Press, 1 janv. 1996 - 336 pages Interest in the Turin Shroud continues to the present day even though it was finally carbon dated in 1988 and shown not to be of an age consistent with Christ's burial. Scientifically, the age of the shroud cloth is of little consequence, but to the general public, it is of considerable significance. The author Harry E. Gove is a co-inventor of accelerator mass spectrometry and was responsible for its use in establishing whether the Turin Shroud could have been Christ's burial cloth. Relic, Icon or Hoax?: Carbon Dating the Turin Shroud presents an eyewitness account of the events that culminated in the final determination of the age of the linen cloth of the Turin Shroud and some of the subsequent reactions to the results. The book discusses the application of accelerator mass spectrometry to the carbon dating of the Turin Shroud using samples only a few square centimeters in area and weighing only a few tens of milligrams. |
Table des matières
The 1978 International Congress on the Shroud | 15 |
Interactions with STURP | 43 |
Interlab Tests Trondheim Preparations for the Turin | 77 |
The Postponement Frenzy | 119 |
The Turin Workshop | 141 |
Dating Delay | 177 |
Dating Labs Announced Unity Attempts | 213 |
Laboratories Accept Samples Removed from Shroud | 239 |
Shroud Dated Public Rumours of a 14th Century Date | 259 |
Results Announced Reactions | 287 |
Cast of Characters | 311 |
Chronology | 319 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Academy of Sciences accelerator mass spectrometry agreed archbishop of Turin Arizona asked British Museum Brookhaven burial cloth Canuto carbon dating Cardinal Ballestrero Carlos Chagas Casaroli Celli Christ control samples copy Damon dating the shroud dating the Turin David Sox Dinegar discussed Donahue Flury-Lemberg going Gonella Harbottle Holy invited involved June La Stampa letter linen Luigi Gonella McCrone Meacham measurements meeting Nuclear October Otlet Oxford participants Peter Rinaldi Pontifical Academy pope postponement procedures Professor Chagas Professor Gonella programme proposal protocol question radiocarbon dating Raes samples received Research Rome Rovasenda scientific scientists sent seven laboratories seven labs Shirley shroud dating Shroud of Turin shroud sample Stampa STURP STURP tests suggested talk Teddy Hall textile expert thought three laboratories three labs Timewatch Tite told Trondheim Turin Shroud Turin workshop University of Rochester Vatican Walter McCrone wanted Woelfli workshop on dating wrote York Zurich