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Harry E. Gove.
Relic, Icon or Hoax? Carbon Dating the Turin Shroud.
Published Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1996.
ISBN 0750303980;
ISBN-13 9780750303989.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound; printed boards, published without a dustjacket.
Printer: University Press, Cambridge.
Size: 159x239x24mm.
Page count: text xvi,336pp; plates 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs and scratches on the boards, a little wear on the edges and corners; a few grubby marks on the page edges; in other respects doesn’t look heavily used, text appears to be free of marking.

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[Publisher’s price £41.99]
Weight without packaging: 675g.

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Contents: Intro. to the Turin Shroud & to carbon dating; The 1978 Congress on the Shroud; Interactions with STURP; Interlab tests, Trondheim, preparations for the Turin Workshop; Postponement frenzy; Turin Workshop; Dating delay; Dating labs announced, unity attempts; Laboratories accept, samples removed from Shroud; Shroud dated, public rumours of a 14th c. date; Results announced, reactions.
Appendix: Cast of characters.

Illustrations: 22 monochrome text illustrations & 8 pages of colour plates
Maps & plans: no

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

See also | Turin Shroud | Carbon dating |
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