Relic, Icon or Hoax?: Carbon Dating the Turin Shroud

by Harry E Gove

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040290095
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	11/01/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	2 MB

Table of Contents

Foreword. Acknowledgments. An Introduction to the Turin Shroud and to Carbon Dating. The 1978 International Congress on the Shroud. Interactions with STURP. Interlab Tests, Trondheim, Preparations for the Turin Workshop. The Postponement Frenzy. The Turin Workshop. Dating Delay. Dating Labs Announced, Unity Attempts. Laboratories Accept, Samples Removed from Shroud. Shroud Dated, Public Rumors of a 14th-Century Date. Results Announced, Reactions. Cast of Characters. Chronology. Index.

What People are Saying About This

D. Allan Bromley

This is a fascinating and unusual book; it is a very personal memoir; and it provides a rare window into the sometimes surprising workings of both science and religion.-- ( D Allan Bromley, Professor of Science and Dean of Engineering, Yale University and President Elect of the American Physical Society )

Editorial Reviews

This extraordinary book recounts the drama and intrigues involved in carbon dating the Shroud of Turin with a frankness usually found only in the pages of a diary. Required reading.
— Shroud Spectrum International

Dorothy Crispino

Gove is a co-inventory of accelerator mass spectrometry and was responsible for its use in carbon dating the linen fabric of the Turin Shroud in 1988 and determining that it is not of an age consistent with being the burial cloth of Christ. He describes the entire process leading up to the dating and some of the reactions to the results. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

"This is a fascinating and unusual book; it is a very personal memoir, and it provides a rare window into the sometimes surprising workings of both science and religion."
-D. Allan Bromley, Professor of Science and Dean of Engineering, Yale University and President Elect of the American Physical Society

"This extraordinary book recounts the drama and intrigues involved in carbon dating the Shroud of Turin with a frankness usually found only in the pages of a diary. Required reading."
-Dorothy Crispino, Editor and Publisher, Shroud Spectrum International

"… a very readable and worthwhile book."
-De La Salle University, Philippines

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