Relic, Icon or Hoax?: Carbon Dating the Turin ShroudInterest 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. |
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Table des matières
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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 |
Index | 325 |
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Page 308 - Policy of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) and the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District.
Page 300 - This result provides conclusive evidence that the linen of the Shroud of Turin is medieval (Damon et al.
Page 189 - He ended by noting that these procedural steps have yet to be finally agreed by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Archbishopric of Turin, so he was not at liberty to divulge their details.
Page 189 - ... unbroken. It was to meet this need that the British Museum accepted the invitation to act as guarantor and independent observer.
Page 25 - McCrone, whom it described as one of the few scientists to become involved in the Shroud study independently of the John Jackson connection, wanted to vacuum the shroud to collect particles for examination back in his Chicago laboratory.
Page 308 - September 1994 a Round Table on the Microbiology of Ancient Artifacts was held in San Antonio, Texas.
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Relic, Icon or Hoax?: Carbon Dating the Turin Shroud |
| Auteur | Harry E Gove |
| Édition | illustrée |
| Éditeur | CRC Press, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0750303980, 9780750303989 |
| Longueur | 336 pages |
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