Relic, Icon or Hoax?
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Relic, Icon or Hoax?

Carbon Dating the Turin Shroud

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Relic, Icon or Hoax?

Carbon Dating the Turin Shroud

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781040290095
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Brief Biographical Sketch of the Author
  10. 1 An Introduction to the Turin Shroud and to Carbon Dating
  11. 2 The 1978 International Congress on the Shroud
  12. 3 Interactions with STURP
  13. 4 Interlab Tests, Trondheim, Preparations for the Turin Workshop
  14. 5 The Postponement Frenzy
  15. 6 The Turin Workshop
  16. 7 Dating Delay
  17. 8 Dating Labs Announced, Unity Attempts
  18. 9 Laboratories Accept, Samples Removed from Shroud
  19. 10 Shroud Dated, Public Rumours of a 14th Century Date
  20. 11 Results Announced, Reactions
  21. Cast of Characters
  22. Chronology
  23. Index