Report on the Shroud of Turin
John H. Heller
- Boston Houghton Mifflin 1983
- 225 p
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
A report on the research performed on the Shroud of Turin by a team of forty scientists