
- 336 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Brief Biographical Sketch of the Author
- 1 An Introduction to the Turin Shroud and to Carbon Dating
- 2 The 1978 International Congress on the Shroud
- 3 Interactions with STURP
- 4 Interlab Tests, Trondheim, Preparations for the Turin Workshop
- 5 The Postponement Frenzy
- 6 The Turin Workshop
- 7 Dating Delay
- 8 Dating Labs Announced, Unity Attempts
- 9 Laboratories Accept, Samples Removed from Shroud
- 10 Shroud Dated, Public Rumours of a 14th Century Date
- 11 Results Announced, Reactions
- Cast of Characters
- Chronology
- Index