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

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.

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.