Report on the Shroud of Turin / John H. Heller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heller, John H. (John Herbert), 1921-1995.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holy Shroud.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 225 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1983.

Summary:

A report on the research preformed on the shroud of Turin by a team of forty scientists.

Contents:

The physics of miracles?

The VP-8, an image in three dimensions

Can we test the real thing?

An odd and wondrous way to organize an expedition

Preparation and protocols: the dry run

Countdown in Turin

The 120-hour adrenaline high

It's red, but what is it? Experiments in microspectrophotometry

Santa Barbara: the iron oxide controversy begins

Chemical conundrums at Colorado Springs

Textile technology, painters, pigments, fibrils, and the debris of ages

Human blood-and cinnabar

Necessary and sufficient proof

Science and the image.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-225).

Other Format:

Online version: Heller, John H. (John Herbert), 1921- Report on the Shroud of Turin.

ISBN:

0395339677

9780395339671

OCLC:

9219465